5 farewell matches of iconic sportspersons gone horribly wrong

#2 Sir Don Bradman

Bradman was bowled for a duck in his last innings

The greatest batsman to have ever played Test cricket, Australian legend Don Bradman's numbers speak for themselves. The most iconic statistic of his is batting average of 99.94, which could have easily been in three figures, had it not been for a sad end to his final innings.

Coming in to bat at the Oval in the fifth and final match of the 1948 Ashes, the great man needed just four runs to ensure that his average would be a minimum of 100. He came out to bat to an ovation by the English team but quite inexplicably, he was out for a duck on his second delivery, clean bowled by leg spinner Eric Hollies with a googly.

It was quite the anticlimax for Bradman, having amassed tons of runs over his career that are still unmatched decades later. A three-digit average would have been the cherry on the top, but alas, it was not to be.