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Don Bradman: Why he was an exceptional cricketer??

   Sir Don Bradman Hey readers, Today we are discussing about ' The Don ' of world cricket, late  Sir Donald George Bradman(  1908 - 2001) . He was an Australian Right handed batsman and is considered as one of the legendary players of all time (GOAT player) . He owned numerous records specially his staggering individual test batting average i.e. 99.94 analysing his 80 test innings. His test average is sufficient to tell anyone about the level of his batting. It was believed that Don Bradman has god gifted talent by which he plays his magical innings. He played only 52 international test matches and 80 test innings in which he scored 29 tons and 13 half centuries with a jaw-breaking batting average of 99.94 having highest score of 334 in his carrer-span of 20 years (1928 - 1948). He scored runs on an average of 42 runs per hour in his carrer with a mind blowing strike rate of 80, which means he scored 80 runs per 100 balls he played.  Bradman playing late...

How 286 runs were scored in just one ball?? OMG! Incident*

 Western Australia Vs Victoria There are many legends in cricket history which surprises us by their sky-high records and achievements and today we are going to talk about one of those, which is still considered as one of the most miraculous events in world cricket history.   According to The Pall Mall Gazette newspaper, in it's sports section, it was claimed that an unbelievable event had done in the Australians match at Burbury.  It was the clock of late 19th century, in a domestic match which was played among Western Australia and Victoria, an almost unbreakable world record was made. Let's find what was it! In that battle, Victoria was one to bat first, the very first ball connected well and flew away in the air toward a tree which was situated inside the cricket ground. But wait, here they saw the ball suddenly disappeared from the sky. Soon, all the players realised that the ball was stuck in the branches of that jarrah tree. The Victorian openers started to r...