Don Bradman – Test Runs Year-by-Year

Don Bradman Test Runs Year by Year

Key Insights

Don Bradman scored his maiden Test hundred in 1928, bringing up the triple-figure mark in his second Test against England in Melbourne. Bradman smashed 112 in the third innings to follow up his maiden fifty (79) in the first innings.

974 of Bradman’s 978 runs in 1930 came in the Ashes series played in England. This is the most runs scored by a batter in a bilateral Test series.

Bradman had four hundreds in his 974-run tally, the second-most by a batter in a Test series. Three of those were double centuries, the second-most by a batter in a calendar year in Tests.

Bradman averaged above 100 in seven calendar years, the most by a batter in Tests (with a minimum of 400 runs). No other batter has a 100-plus average in more than two years.

Bradman ended 1932 with an average of 402, thanks to only one dismissal in three innings. This is the highest average by a batter in a year in Tests (with a minimum of three innings batted).

Bradman started 1932 with an unbeaten 299 against South Africa in the Adelaide Test. He is the only batter to remain unbeaten on 299 in the longer format.

Bradman was the first Australian captain to aggregate 1000-plus Test runs in a calendar year. He scored 1025 runs in 13 innings in 1948.

Bradman averaged 113.88 that year, the highest for an Australian batter and captain in a single year.