Cricket: The records of Sir Donald Bradman

TEST MATCHES

Highest Test career batting average: 99.94 (next best is 61)

Highest series aggregate: 974 (v England 1930)

Most double centuries in a series: 3 (v England 1930)

Most runs in a single day: 309 (v England 1930: 105 before lunch, 115 between lunch and tea, 89 final session)

Most runs against England: 5,028

Fastest double century in a Test: 214min (Leeds, 1930)

Fastest to 2,000 (22 innings), 3,000 (33), 4,000 (48), 5,000 (56) and 6,000 (68) Test runs.

Most Test double hundreds: 12 (next best is seven)

Only man to score centuries in 6 consecutive Tests (1937-46)

Highest Test score for two batting positions: 304 v England at No 5 (Leeds, 1934); 270 v England at No 7 (Melbourne, 1936-37)

FIRST-CLASS CRICKET

Highest career average: 95.14 (no other player with 25,000 runs or more above 57)

1,000 runs in a season most times: 16 (12 in Australia, four in England)

Only man to score 1,000 runs in England before 1 June more than once: 1930 (1,001) and 1938 (1,056)

Highest first-class average in an English season: 115.66 (1938)

Highest debut abroad: 236 (v Worcestershire, 1930)

Most double centuries in an English season: 6 (1930)

Most centuries in an Australian season: 8 (1947-48)

Most centuries in an English season by an overseas player: 13 (1938)

Most career double hundreds: 37

Most career triple hundreds: 6

Fastest man to 100 hundreds: 295 innings (next best Denis Compton, 552)