His home town
is Bowral, about an hour south-west of Sydney He was not actually born here.
Bradman was born in Cootamundra on 27th August 1908 and died in Adelaide on 25th
February 2001. However, Bowral was where he grew up from the age of two and
where he played his first cricket. Therefore, the Bradman Museum is in Bowral,
adjacent to the cricket ground where he played his first competitive match
at the age of twelve and scored 115 not out, as well as taking eight wickets.
The Bradman museum tells the
life story of Sir Donald
Bradman and contains
cricketing trophies,
photographs and film
of various famous matches,
not confined to those
in which Sir Donald played. Bowral. |
