Chennai: Google has come out with a Doodle, honouring batting legend, Sir Donald Bradman on his 110th Birth anniversary. The doodle features an animated Bradman playing a stroke.
Bradman, born as Donald George Bradman on August 27, 1908 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, is regarded as the finest batsman of all time. In his stellar career, spanning 20 years, Bradman made 12 Test double-hundreds with the highest score of 334 against England and had notched up 29 centuries.
In domestic cricket, he scored an astonishing 28,067 runs at an average of 95.14, amassing 117 centuries with the highest score of 452 (not out).Don Bradman needed only four runs in the final innings of his career to have a Test batting average of exactly 100, but he failed to score even a single run as leg-spinner Eric Hollies bowled him out for a duck. In so doing, he finished with Test average of 99.94.
Some of the records still held by Bradman
* Highest Individual Test Batting Average (minimum 15 innings) 99.94
* Equal top-scorer of triple centuries (with Lara and Sehwag) 2
* Only Test batsman to score more than 5,000 runs vs an opponent (5,028 v England)
* 7 times scored 500 or more runs in a Test series (Equal with Lara)