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Don Bradman’s ‘sun faded and worn’ baggy green sold at auction for nearly $500,000

  • Test great’s tatty cap said to have ‘some insect damage’
  • Record $479,700 fetched for one of Bradman’s cricket hats

The combination of Sir Donald Bradman’s fabled brilliance and the baggy green’s near-mythical status has persuaded an Australian to part with nearly half-a-million dollars for one of the Don’s Test caps.

Unlike modern Australian players the Test cricketers of Bradman’s era wore a different cap for each series, so the one worn by Bradman during the 1947-48 home summer against India is far from unique, but it has nevertheless sold at auction for $479,700, a record for a cap worn by the great batter.

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Source: Cricket - The Guardian

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