For decades, Australians have enjoyed international recognition for achievements in sport. None more-so than Sir Donald Bradman. Born in Cootamundra in 1908, and raised in Bowral, 'The Don' is acknowledged as the greatest cricketer ever to play the game, and one of Australia's most respected sportsmen. Blessed with unerring hand and eye coordination, his unwavering concentration was developed as a youth by hitting a golf ball with a stump in the backyard of his family home in Bowral.

Debuting for NSW in the 1927-28 season, Sir Donald amassed 28,067 runs in first class matches including 117 hundreds. On average, he made a century every third visit to the crease. His Test batting average of 99.94, established over a Test career of twenty years and 52 Tests, stands not only as a record unlikely to ever be surpassed, but as testimony to his pre-eminent standing in the game of cricket.

Sir Donald Bradman passed away late in 2001

Source: Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the 1996 Bradman 5 Dollar Proof Coin.