SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian businessman has bought Donald Bradman’s first saggy inexperienced take a look at cap for 450,000 Australian {dollars} ($340,000) at public sale, the second-highest worth paid for a chunk of cricket memorabilia.
Peter Freedman, the founding father of Rode Microphones who earlier this yr paid 9 million Australian {dollars} ($6.8 million) at an public sale for a guitar utilized by Nirvana entrance man Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradman’s take a look at debut cap round Australia.
The value for Bradman’s 1928 Australia cap sits behind the $1,007,500 ($760,000) paid at public sale for Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne’s take a look at cap earlier this yr — the world-record worth for an merchandise of cricket memorabilia, public sale officers mentioned.
Bradman represented Australia for 20 years, taking part in 52 take a look at matches from 1928 to 1948, and is usually considered the world’s best-ever cricketer.
Knighted for his companies to cricket in 1949, he retired from take a look at cricket with a batting common of 99.94, making his take a look at batting achievements practically twice that of the closest batsman within the longer model of the sport.
“Sir Don Bradman is an Aussie legend,” Freedman mentioned on Tuesday. “Not solely as certainly one of our biggest skills on the sporting area and probably the most revered athletes of all time, however as an icon of Australian fortitude and resilience.”
