Tagged the 'Boy from Bowral' Don Bradman was in fact born in Cootamandra, New South Wales on the 27th August 1908 and was the youngest of 3 girls and 2 boys. The family moved Bowral when he was a baby. In his youth the young Bradman's favourite recreations was to hit a golf ball continuously onto the base on which the family water tank rested using a cricket stump while running an imaginary Test match in his head.

Late in 1927 Bradman was a last minute selection to the NSW Sheffield Sheild side where he score 118 in his debut match. Bradman played many matches for NSW and made many high scores until he was selected for the Australian Side in the 1928-29 season.

Bradman's test debut was not quite what he hoped for. He faled in both innings and Australia lost the match by the largest amount in history, 657 runs. In his second game Bradman made 2 very large scores and continued with record breaking scores  from there on. Bradmans amazing career was filled with ill health and World War II which both took off many years out of his career.

Bradman made his final cricket trip to England in 1948, in which Bradman and the other  players were rated by cricket historians as the best Australian side to ever tour England. On Bradmans return to Australia he played 3 different Testamonial games and once again score several centuries. In 1949 Bradman was knighted for his services to cricket and the public. Recently Sir Donald Bradman passed away in his 90's. He will never be forgotten!

Sir Donald Bradman is tuely the greatest player of all time and has earned many awards and if he had been able to play as many matches as Alan Border for example he would have broken many more records than the ones he still has today.