A Baggy Green cap worn by Don Bradman during Australia's 1947-48 series against India was auctioned for a record $460,000 and will be displayed at an Australian museum.
Bradman wore that cap during the 1947/48 series against the first Indian team to tour Australia. The series saw Bradman amassing 715 runs from six innings.
Don Bradman wore the "baggy green" cap during India's first tour of Australia as an independent country in 1947-48, scoring 715 runs in six innings at an average of 178.75.
Australian opener David Warner's impassioned appeal for the return of his missing baggy green cap for his final Test has been successful with the rucksack containing the iconic headwear discovered at the team hotel in Sydney.
David Warner made an impassioned appeal for the return of a rucksack containing his baggy green cap that went missing on a flight from Melbourne to Sydney for his final Test match this week.
The "baggy green" cap awarded to late Australian cricketing great Don Bradman on his Test debut in 1928 has been sold to a local businessman for A$450,000 (US $340,000) after it failed to sell at auction last week.
Australian sports figures and several international tennis players who arrived in the country for tournaments ahead of the Australian Open have raised funds in support of relief and recovery efforts for victims.
The Baggy Green is synonymous with the Australian cricket team's Test cap and ICC also took it sportingly and apologised with a smile
Don Bradman's baggy green cap which he wore in the 1948 tour of England where he scored a duck in his final innings to miss out on a Test average of 100 has been put on auction but the initial interest has been lukewarm.
The two items will go under the hammer through Lloyds Auctions Bushfire Relief Auction.
The price eclipsed the A$425,000 achieved by the late Don Bradman's baggy green when it was sold in 2003.
A baggy green worn by late Sir Don Bradman fetched a whopping US $425,000 at an auction in Melbourne. The cap reportedly worn by Bradman in 1948 was the highest fund-raiser at the auction. Another baggy green owned by legendary all-rounder Allan Border was sold at almost double its asking price, at US $29,000.
Australia, who have already secured their place in the final of the World Test Championship against South Africa, won the opening Test, also in Galle, by an innings and 242 runs.
Alyssa Healy scored a remarkable 158 in her final ODI match, leading Australia to a dominant victory over India and securing a 3-0 series win. Healy's performance, combined with Beth Mooney's century, highlighted Australia's strength, while India struggled with repeated mistakes.
Will Pucovski rode his luck, but his 62 was the best return for an Australian opener in the series so far and helped his side into a strong position at the end of Day 1 of the third Test against India at the SCG.
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has opened up on his ongoing fight against skin cancer, revealing that he has had "a number of cut outs" on his face, including one off his nose recently.
'As I said, while you're contributing, or while you're in the best group of players, why do you have to put a cap on a guy or a girl, if you're a certain age?'
Mitchell Starc will become just the second Australian fast bowler after Glenn McGrath to play 100 Tests.
Shane Warne said that the prized Australian Test cap evokes 'verbal diarrhoea' among its admirers and he can never be one of them.
The 6'7" seam-bowling all-rounder's inclusion in Australia's line-up was expected after his impressive hundred in the first warm-up game against India A.
Bradman wore the cap during his last Test series on Australian soil, against India in 1947-48. A Sydney businessman snapped it up.
He also admitted to learning a lot from 'one of the best players in the world', his teammate Steve Smith.
The baggy green cap from the 1946-47 Ashes series was sold at Christie's for 35,250 pounds ($58,690).
ACB chairman Bob Merriman said the cap would be put on display in an Australian museum.
Scott Boland will become the first indigenous Australian Test player since Jason Gillespie played his last match in 2006 when he receives his baggy green cap on Sunday.
India's charismatic middle-order batter in T20 cricket Suryakumar Yadav made his Test debut along with wicketkeeper K S Bharat.
Shane Warne has slammed then Australia coach John Buchanan for questioning the players' (lack of) desire to win, leading to near mutiny in the team.
Former spinner Shane Warne on Monday had announced he would auction his Baggy Green cap to raise funds for victims of devastating bushfires in Australia.
A number of top cricketers have expressed concern about being confined to biosecure bubbles for months on end to keep international schedules on track.
Injury-weakened Australia return to Test action on home soil this week for the first time since their humiliating Ashes defeat, taking on a New Zealand team convinced conditions might just be right for an upset.
Tributes poured in for retired opener Matthew Hayden with Cricket Australia (CA) describing the burly left-hander as one of the greatest players ever to don the baggy green cap for Australia. CA chairman Jack Clarke said in a statement that Hayden was an indispensable part of the most successful chapter of Australian cricket.
'Test match cricket is never easy ... when you have a guy disrespecting West Indies, and us players that are playing, it is hurtful.'
Currently, India leads the World Test Championships table with Australia in second place.
Skipper Graeme Smith thinks South Africa's Test series win in Australia four years ago was a key step on their rise to the number one ranking and another good showing over the next month could be just as important.
The most prolific Australian batsman and one of the most successful cricketers of all time, Ricky Ponting is facing the unthinkable over the next six weeks -- becoming the first Australian captain to lose three Ashes series.
Usman Khawaja is not comfortable at being called the first Muslim to play Test cricket for Australia but has no issues if he is known as the first Pakistani-born player to wear the baggy green cap.
The world champions will don high-tech green collarless shirts in one-day international matches.
Cricket Australia paid tribute to cricketer Bill Brown, who died on the weekend in Brisbane. Brown, who was baggy green cap number 150, made his Test debut at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, in June 1934, making 22 and 73. He was Australia's oldest Test cricketer and last pre-World War 2 Test cricketer, and leaves Ron Hamence, Sam Loxton, Arthur Morris and Neil Harvey as the last surviving members of Sir Donald Bradman's famous Invincibles side of 1948.
Cricket Australia (CA) said descendants of deceased Australian test players would be offered a commemorative certificate to honour their role.
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