Which cricketer scored a record 309 runs in a single day of a Test match?

At Headingley, Leeds on July 11, 1930 Australia lost the wicket of Archie Jackson off the 11th ball of the innings. A young 21 year-old Don Bradman walked out to bat and walked back at the end of the day unbeaten on 309.

Bradman had amassed the first triple hundred in Anglo-Australian Test cricket, going past Reggie Foster’s record of 287. The runs were plundered everywhere. The scoring chart produced by Bill ‘Fergie’ Ferguson remains as uniformly cluttered as any. The drives went straight and through the off and on in equal proportions. There were cuts and hooks and hits to the square leg. According to The Times, “To mention the strokes from which he scored most of his runs is to go through the whole range of strokes known to a modern batsman".

Don Bradman's innings of 334 at Headingly in 1930 included 46 fours, 6 threes, 26 twos and 80 singles.

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Brian Reynolds

There is also a Bradman museum in Bowral New South Wales. Although born in Cootamundra he spent much of his early life in Bowral where he played for the local first grade team at the age of fourteen. A remarkable effort to score a triple century in one day and it must also be remembered that in 1930 batsmen did not wear helmets as they do today. In every sport a "once in a generation" player arrives on the scene. Snooker has Ronnie O'Sullivan and cricket has Don Bradman.

ToniP

What a man! If you visit Cootamundra, birthplace of Don Bradman you can visit the museum dedicated to this great batsman.

David Roy

Albeck1994, that wasn't in a test match. It was in a county match for Warwickshire.

Fred Keogh

In his last ever Test Match, Bradman needed to score just 4 runs to bring his average up to 100. He was out for 0, zero, zilch, leaving his average at 99.9.