Sir Donald Bradman is labelled as the world's best cricketer and played for the national Australian cricket team during the 1920s-1940s with the highest average runs, nearing to 100 runs per match, and had a great moral impact on the Australian people during the Great Depression.

Bradman was born on 27th of August 1908, New South Wales, (NSW) Cootamundra and grew up in Bowral as an athletic child. Bradman started playing Cricket at an early age, only using a cricket stump, a golf ball, and a water tank, hitting the ball on the rebound. He used this form of practice to improve his batting style during youth and in 1920-1921 at age 12, Bradman had scored his first century, totalling at 115 runs in total for the Bowral High School cricket team and was nicknamed as the 'run-making machine.' At age 17 in 1925-1926, he had scored 1318 runs in 23 innings for the Bowral senior team, he then later progressed playing cricket for Sydney's St. George Club, the following year of 1927 he was selected to join the NSW cricket team, later In 1928, selectors saw Don had a lot of potential and was then invited to play cricket for Australia. …show more content…
Bradman did not have a great looking start, scoring only 18 runs in the first innings and 1 in the second, he then was dropped out in the second Test match. However on the third Test match, he certainly did not disappoint, making a massive score of 1690 runs, with 700 being a century. Bradman, only at the age of 20 years, was placed in the record books for youngest player to score a Test century ever, additionally during 1930, Bradman scored his highest personal score of 452 runs in 415 minutes in a first class match. During his whole career, Don had been captain for the Australians 12 times, amassing 271 centuries with a total of 50,731 from 669 innings, and made his highest test score at Headingly in Leeds with a personal record of 334