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Donald Bradman's baggy green sold for $340,000

SportzPower Team
Dec 22, 2020 18:12

SYDNEY: An Australian businessman has purchased the baggy green cap that the late Australian all-time cricketing great Donald Bradman wore on his Test debut against England in 1928 for A$450,000 ($340,000) at auction, the second-highest price paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia.

Peter Freedman, founder of Rode Microphones, who earlier this year paid A$9 million ($6.8 million) at an auction for a guitar used by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradman's Test debut cap around Australia, PTI reports.

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