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Test Records by Sir Donald Bradman
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
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