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The bat with which Bradman scored 452 not out for New South Wales against Queensland in 1930 will be auctioned in Melbourne next week.

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What do you reckon it'll go for? $200,000?

Hard to guess in the current global meltdown. Wonder if it's being sold by a desperate looking to salvage their financial reputation.

will buy it if its under $100

PlanetPakistan wrote:will buy it if its under $100

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Will I have to oil it and knock it in before I use it?

embee wrote:Will I have to oil it and knock it in before I use it?

That sounds a little gay...

Invader Zim wrote:

embee wrote:Will I have to oil it and knock it in before I use it?

That sounds a little gay...

Bradman was a dubber ...

Well his first test bat, not his most auspicious game, sold for 150,000.

Actually his '48 tour cap is up for grabs too if you've got a lazy $750,00.

I can imagine some mad scientist buying the cap just to try and get some of the Don's DNA for cloning, extracting a couple of hairs from it, only to discover that he's cloned the winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, who bought the cap a few years ago.

Phurt. Batsmen are a dime a dozen. We should be freezing TGMs sperm for future generations.

Or just allow him to do what comes naturally to him?

Aye, but how many leg spinning strippers does the world need?

We could harvest some of Zoe Goss's eggs...

Lisa Sthalakar (or whatever) would be better ...be acclimatised to subi conditions

embee wrote:Lisa Sthalakar (or whatever) would be better ...be acclimatised to subi conditions

Yeah but after Warney dissed has at the ABM a couple of years ago, he wouldn't get within 50 feet of her.

A bit more from zcore's website on that 452*




The Ultimate Bradman



When we come to a score of 452 not out, as Don Bradman made for New South Wales v Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the first few days of the 1930s, it doesn’t take a lot of analysis to know what an extraordinary innings it was. After all, it held the record for highest first-class innings for the best part of 30 years. Even so, closer analysis can still be rewarding, and reveal important, previously unknown features of the innings; for example, by “re-scoring” the surviving original scorebook, we can calculate for the first time how many balls the Don faced.



One of the surprising features is that Bradman made his runs in the second innings, after being out for three in the first. Bradman’s score remains, by a margin of more than 100 runs, the highest in the second innings of a match, ahead of WG Grace’s 344 in 1876; there are no other second innings among the Top 40 first-class scores.



Bradman was fortunate that Sheffield Shield matches were scheduled for 4 and a half days in 1929/30; the 5th day was abolished after that season, and Bradman’s innings, under later circumstances, would have been curtailed by an earlier declaration. Bradman, 205 not out overnight, also may have appreciated the rest day on the 5th of January. Still, scoring so many in a second innings required extremely fast, sustained scoring and intense concentration, which has been praised by many commentators.



Bradman by all accounts was rarely troubled by the Queensland bowlers (though Thurlow bowled well, and there were near chances on 264 and 345), but the secret of the gigantic score seems to lie in discipline and consistency. Bradman seemed to quickly find a comfort zone and he stuck with it. The table below gives the times and balls faced for the innings milestones.

	Mins	Balls
1st 50	51	55
2nd 50	53	67
3rd 50	43	48
4th 50	38	39
5th 50	45	55
6th 50	58	46
7th 50	45	49
8th 50	43	48
9th 50	38	58
452*	415	465