At a local auction, the cap was sold for $390,000 Australian dollars.
Sir Don Bradman’s famous ‘Baggy Green’ cap, which he wore during his final Test series for Australia, sold for an incredible sum at auction.
The cap sold in a local auction in Sydney on December 3 for 390,000 Australian dollars, according to sources in the international media.
According to the source, Sir Don Bradman wore this cap in his final Test series against India in Australia in 1947–48. Bradman put on an outstanding display during this series, recording his 100th first-class century. In six innings, the right-handed batter amassed 715 runs, including three hundreds and one double hundred.
Interestingly, this is the sole intact Baggy Green cap from that series. According to the reports, Bradman gave Pankaj Kumar Gupta, the Indian team’s manager at the time, this cap. Many years later, the cap was purchased by a collector who gave it to the Bradman Museum, where it was eventually put up for auction.
Considered by many to be the best batsman in cricket history, Sir Don Bradman amassed 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94 in 52 Test matches, including 13 half-centuries and 29 hundreds. In the game’s longest format, he also holds the record for the most double hundreds (12).
At the age of 92, Bradman died in 2001.
