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Test Records by Sir Donald Bradman

cover drive 1929-30 Bradman Bradman & Barnes 1946 Bradman featured front cover Weekend Argus magazine 1946


Current test records still held by Don Bradman
(as at April 2007)

  • Highest Individual Test Batting Average (minimum 15 innings) 99.94
  • Highest Test Batting Average for a 5-Test Series 201.50 (v South Africa, Australia, 1931-32)
  • Only batsman to score a century on debut for 2 states 118 (N.S.W. 1927); 117 (S.A. 1935)
  • Highest 50/100 run conversion rate 69.05%
  • Most double-centuries 12
  • Equal top-scorer of triple centuries (with Lara) 2
  • Most double-centuries in a series 3 (1930)
  • Most consecutive centuries in Tests 6 (1936-37 to 1938); 270, 212, 169, 144*, 102*, 103 Note: Due to injury Bradman was unable to bat in the next Test but scored 187 and 234 in the following two Tests in 1946-47)
  • Highest % of centuries in innings played 36.25%
  • 5th wicket partnership (with Sid Barnes 1946-47) 405
  • 6th wicket partnership (with Jack Fingleton 1936-37) 346
  • Highest score by a number 4 batsman 304 (v England, Leeds, 1934)
  • Only Test batsman to score more than 5,000 runs v an opponent (5,028 v England)
  • 7 times scored 500 or more runs in a Test series (Equal with Lara)
  • Six times scored centuries in an interval (once pre lunch, twice lunch-tea, three times tea-stumps)
  • Scored the most runs in a single days play 309 v England, Leeds, 1930