Bradman Another 200

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 177, 29 July 1938, Page 13

Bradman Another 200

HE LEADS HAMMOND BY ONE Prospect o/ Two More Records Fn«W r R g A™ third . dou | 3le ce nt«ry on the 1938 tour of Tef. f i r the lead from Hammond. The Lesent P S e as n „ S n £' 5° SC ° reS «"***»* 200 when the SSTlnlfiSS ° Pened \A adman made 258 a WorcesetrfSLS? f againßt r ,MC.C, while Hammond equalised with ?o d EnJl.ns r G*™*?"***™ a county game and 240 inii»« I? T n SCC ° nd T C9t *' Lords - Australian's fast 3by siTIS. 8^8 H,m the lead in *-. flight, of j'ln 6 " ye * rs > o{ ,\ first-class cricket Bradman has already compiled 80 centuries, and on this tour has aggregated 2344 runs tor 19 innings (five times not out) at an average of 12337 lwo more records may be added to his amazing list. He needs four more three-figure scores to beat the 1 6 for a season standing to the credit of Jack Hobbs (1925), and another 656 runs to • J.- sft' Außtr f lian to reach 3000 runs in a summer. He Went within 40 runs of reaching that sublime figure on his initial tour of England in 1930, when his 2960 runs for 36 innings (ten hundreds and six times unbeaten) gave him an average of vo.oo.