Don Bradman’s Test Batting Records by Opponent: Stats & Averages

Don Bradman Test Runs Opponent-wise

Key Insights – A Breakdown of Don Bradman’s Test Stats by Opponent

Don Bradman amassed 5,028 runs against England in Tests. This is the most Test runs by any batter against England.

His average of 89.78 is also the highest against England among batters with at least 1,000 Test runs.

Nineteen of Bradman’s 29 centuries came against England, the most by a batter against an opponent in Tests. Eight of those were double hundreds, also the most against a single team.

Ten of Bradman’s 19 hundreds against England came as Australia’s captain. No other skipper has scored 10 or more centuries against an opponent in Tests.

Bradman’s 31 fifty-plus scores against England are also the most against a Test team. Sixteen of those scores came as skipper, which is only bettered by Allan Border (17) against the same opposition.

The right-hander also holds the highest individual Test score among Australian batters against England. He struck 334 in the first innings of the 1930 Leeds Test.

Bradman accumulated 974 runs in the 1930 Ashes, the most by a batter in a Test series.

Bradman is the only batter to aggregate 700-plus runs against England in three Test series. He is also the only batter to aggregate 700-plus against three teams in bilateral Test series. Apart from England, the Australian had an 806-run series against South Africa in 1931/32 and a 715-run series against India in 1947/48.

Bradman’s 806-run effort is the second-highest by a batter in a Test series against South Africa. He averaged 201.50 while scoring those runs, the highest by a batter against South Africa in Tests (minimum five innings and 500 runs).

Likewise, Bradman’s average of 178.75 against India is also the highest by a batter against them in all Tests – One of the insane achievements of Don Bradman!