Eclipse said:
Anyone here about the 28 ball hundered Bardaman supposedly scored once??
I dont think it was a FC match because it would be a record but form what I have heard the team containd sevral quality bowlers a few FC players of the time and past test bowlers.
I have read about this supposed hunderd on quite a few occasion's I wonder if anyone know's anything more about it?
The innings in question was a non-FC match, with Bradman playing for an invitational Blackheath XI vs Lithgow Pottery Cricket Club on Nov. 3 1931. According to Bradman's biography ('The Don'), he was on 54 when an offspinner by the name of Bill Black (who never played FC or Test cricket) was brought on. Bradman is reported to have asked the keeper 'What does this fellow bowl?', to which the keeper replied 'Don't you remember this bloke? He bowled you out a few weeks ago [in a previous tour]. He's been boasting about it ever since.'
Black apparently set an ambitiously attacking field. Bradman hit the first ball for 6 over mid-on, then hit a further 6,4,2,4,4,6,1 (retains strike for next over), 6,4,4,6,6,4,6,4, (partner hits single) 6,6,1 (partner hits single) 4,4,6.
In that sequence of three eight-ball overs he went from 54* to 154* in 22 balls and 12 mins, the fastest 100 runs ever recorded at any level of cricket. He went on to make 256, with 29 4's and 14 6's.
He had also taken 4/49 in the first innings bowling leggies :P