FED: Four missing runs for Bradman's 100 found: Statistician

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2008
FED: Four missing runs for Bradman's 100 found: Statistician

The elusive four runs that would bring DON BRADMAN'S test average to a cool 100 may
have been found.

Sports statistician CHARLES DAVIS has studied old test match scorebooks .. which he
says contain numerous errors and anomalies.

MR DAVIS has told Fairfax newspapers he reviewed the scorebook of the epic .. eight-day
fifth test of 1928-29 against England in Melbourne .. when BRADMAN was batting with JACK
RYDER.

He says there are four runs attributed to RYDER that are in the wrong place in both
the batting section of the score and in the bowling section .. and could have actually
belonged to BRADMAN.

BRADMAN'S test average .. 99.94 runs per dismissal .. is entrenched in Australian sporting
history.

Four more runs would have taken his average to 100.

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