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Bradman's missing four runs found

An Australian cricket statistician claimed yesterday to have found four "missing" runs which would lift Don Bradman's test average to 100.

  • AP
  • Published: 23:47 August 23, 2008
  • Gulf News

Sydney: An Australian cricket statistician claimed yesterday to have found four "missing" runs which would lift Don Bradman's test average to 100.

Bradman, regarded as the greatest cricketer of all time, needed four runs in his last test innings against England at the Oval in 1948 to end his famous career a test average of 100 runs per innings.

It has passed into cricket folklore that Bradman was bowled for a duck by little-known Englishman Eric Hollies, finishing a 52-test career in which he scored 28,067 runs with an average of 99.94.

Statistician Charles Davis now claims to have studied old test match scorebooks and to have found a "tantalising clue" that Bradman may have scored four more runs than he has been awarded.

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