espnstar.com takes a look at Sir Donald Bradman’s staggering stats on the legend’s 101st birth anniversary.

By Rajesh Kumar

Bradman, after a glittering Test career of twenty years, retired from Test Cricket in 1948, aggregating 6,996 runs in 52 Tests at an average of 99.94.
 
His prodigious batting feats can leave no doubt about his status as the greatest batsman that ever lived. For much of his Test career, his average was 95-plus and before his last Test innings, the same was 101.39.

Bradman would have finished his Test career with a batting average of 100.00 but that hope was quashed by an Eric Hollies googly that bowled him second-ball for a duck on his emotional farewell at The Oval in 1948.
 
Some of his stupendous feats have not been surpassed till date. During the 1930 Ashes in England, he had aggregated 974 at an average of 139.14, which is a world record for most runs in a Test series.
 
He is the only batsman to have recorded four centuries in a Test series three times - once each against England in 1930; South Africa in 1931-32 and India in 1947-48.
 
The Don was the first to post two triple hundreds in Tests - both at Headingley, Leeds - 334 in 1930 and 304 in 1934 - apart from remaining unbeaten on 299 against South Africa at Adelaide in 1931-32.  During his career-best 334, he had recorded 309 in a day's play - the only batsman in Test annals to do so.