Sir Donald Bradman Test match Cricket Records

Highest career batting average (minimum 20 innings): 99.94

Highest series batting average (5 Test series): 201.50 (1931–32)

Highest ratio of centuries per innings played: 36.25% (29 centuries from 80 innings)

Highest 5th wicket partnership: 405 (with Sid Barnes, 1946–47)

Highest 6th wicket partnership: 346 (with Jack Fingleton, 1936–37)

Highest score by a number 5 batsman: 304 (1934)

Highest score by a number 7 batsman: 270 (1936–37)

Most runs against one opponent: 5,028 (v England)

Most runs in one series: 974 (1930)

Most centuries scored in a single session of play: 6 (1 pre lunch, 2 lunch-tea, 3 tea-stumps)

Most runs in one day’s play: 309 (1930)

Most double centuries: 12

Most double centuries in a series: 3 (1930)

Most triple centuries: 2 (equal with Brian Lara and Virender Sehwag)

Most consecutive matches in which he made a century: 6 (the last three Tests in 1936–37, and the first three Tests in 1938)

Bradman has averaged over 100 in seven different calendar years (*qualification 400 runs). No other player has achieved this in more than two calendar years.

Fastest player to reach 2000 (in 22 innings), 3000 (33 innings), 4000 (48 innings), 5000 (56 innings) and 6000 (68 innings)Test runs.

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