FIRST DAY IN THIRD TEST

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 9

FIRST DAY IN THIRD TEST

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AUSTRALIA, 453 FOR THREE

British Official Wireless. (Received 12th July, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, 11th July.

la the third Test match at Leeds to-day the young Australian batsman, Don Bradman, whose last three innings in Test matches have been 131, 254, and 102 unfinished, surpassed all his previous achievements and broke several long-standing Test match records with a superb innings of 309 not out. When he replaced Jackson, who was dismissed with the score at one wicket for 2 runs, he immediately began scoring rapidly, and with Woodfull playing carefully as his partner, had made a century before luncheon, a feat only previously achieved in Test matches by Trumper and Macartney. He played all the English bowlers with complete confidence and with a great variety of forceful strokes, receiving a tremendous ovation when he passed the previous highest score ever made in a Test match, 287, by R. E. Foster. After Woodfull had gone Kippax helped Bradman to place Australia in an-extremely strong position.