A cap worn by Australian cricket legend Don Bradman has offered for 479,700 Australian {dollars} (£245,000) at an public sale in Sydney.
Bradman wore the cap – generally known as a ‘saggy inexperienced’ – within the 1947-48 house Take a look at collection towards India, throughout which he scored his a centesimal first-class century.
Public sale home Bonham’s described the cap, external as “solar pale and worn”, with “some insect harm” and “some loss to [the] fringe of [the] peak”.
It was purchased for 390,000 Australian {dollars} (£200,000) earlier than the addition of a purchaser’s premium was added to the charge.
Bradman, who died aged 92 in 2001, is extensively considered cricket’s greatest-ever batter and averaged 99.94 throughout his 52-match Take a look at profession.
The collection towards India was his final on house soil and he scored 715 runs in six innings at a median of 178.75 – with three centuries and a double-hundred – as Australia received 4-0.
India had been additionally enjoying of their first worldwide cricket tour as an impartial nation.
Bradman’s cap had been on mortgage since 2010 to the Bradman Museum within the participant’s hometown of Bowral.
Following the 1947-48 Indian tour, Bradman gave the cap to the Indian crew tour supervisor, Pankaj Gupta, who handed it on to the Indian crew’s wicket keeper PK Sen.
It was bought by the present proprietor in 2003, public sale home Bonhams stated.
