A cap worn by Australian cricket legend Don Bradman has bought for 479,700 Australian {dollars} (£245,000) at an public sale in Sydney.
Bradman wore the cap – often called a ‘saggy inexperienced’ – within the 1947-48 residence Check sequence in opposition to India, throughout which he scored his a hundredth first-class century.
Public sale home Bonham’s described the cap, external as “solar pale and worn”, with “some insect harm” and “some loss to [the] fringe of [the] peak”.
It was purchased for 390,000 Australian {dollars} (£200,000) earlier than the addition of a purchaser’s premium was added to the charge.
Bradman, who died aged 92 in 2001, is extensively thought to be cricket’s greatest-ever batter and averaged 99.94 throughout his 52-match Check profession.
The sequence in opposition to India was his final on residence soil and he scored 715 runs in six innings at a mean of 178.75 – with three centuries and a double-hundred – as Australia gained 4-0.
India have been additionally taking part in of their first worldwide cricket tour as an unbiased nation.
Bradman’s cap had been on mortgage since 2010 to the Bradman Museum within the participant’s hometown of Bowral.
Following the 1947-48 Indian tour, Bradman gave the cap to the Indian crew tour supervisor, Pankaj Gupta, who handed it on to the Indian crew’s wicket keeper PK Sen.
It was bought by the present proprietor in 2003, public sale home Bonhams mentioned.