Sir Donald Bradman's Record Against India: What Do The Numbers Say?

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If you are an ardent cricket follower then the name Sir Don Bradman must be common to you. Well for those of you this name seems a bit unheard, Sir Donald Bradman is considered by the purists of cricketing fraternity as the Greatest Ever batter to have ever played the game. 

During his cricketing career, which spanned for about 20 years, Sri Don played 52 Tests. In these Tests, he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94 with 29 Hundreds and 13 Half-centuries. His Test average is considered to be one of those rare ones in cricket that will remain unbreakable. 

Interestingly, Sir Don could have had a perfect 100 average in Test cricket, if he had scored only four runs in his final Test innings. However, unfortunately, he was dismissed for duck and that meant, the great man failed to achieve the perfect 100 figure. 

Talking about his career, Don Bradman played cricket at a time when not many countries participated in the post. So, most of the cricket followers have a slight misconception that he played all his Tests against England. It is very easy to reach this conclusion as nearly 71% of his Test matches were against England, but Don Bradman has played 15 games in total against South Africa, West Indies and India. 

Sir Donald Bradman vs India

Donald Bradman faced India during the 1947-48 India tour of Australia. This Indian team was being led by the legendary Lala Amarnath. 

During this series, Sir Don scored 715 runs in in six innings at an average of 178.75. He has four Hundreds and one half-century against India.

Notably, Bradman came to India in 1948, but did not play a single match during that tour.

As far as India is concerned, Vijay Hazare was the highest run scorer with 429 runs in 10 innings at an average of 47.66 with two Hundreds and a fifty. 

India were at their natant stages in cricket in this series and faced a 4-0 defeat against the Aussies. This remains as the only instance whenn the fabled Sir Donald Bradman faced India in Test cricket.