Where does Michael Phelps' haul of 23 gold medals rank among the greatest sporting achievements of all time?

#2 Sir Donald Bradman‘s Test batting average of 99.94

Sir Donald Bradman was four runs away from achieving a career batting average of 100

You would think that sportspersons like Muhammad Ali, Pele, Roger Federer or Michael Jordan would feature on this list and rightly so. However, as great they might be, their avhievements are constantly challenged, unlike Sir Donald Bradman’s batting average in Test matches. Regarded by many as the greatest batsman of all time, Sir Don Bradman has done something that, in all probability, will never be repeated ever in cricket history.

In a career spanning 52 Test matches, Don Bradman scored an unbelievable 29 centuries and 6,996 runs at an average of 99.96. Players like Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Border, Vivian Richards and Brian Lara have created their own spaces in batting history but none come close to Sir Don Bradman. Just to give you a small insight into how unbrekable his record is, the next best batting average belongs to England’s Wally Hammond and it is more than 40 runs per match less than Bradman. Only if he has scored that four in the last innings, he would have finished one on this list.