Don Bradman 1948 team. For Bradman, it was the most personally fulfilling period of his playing days, as the divisiveness of the 1930s had passed. He wrote: With Bradman now retired from professional cricket, RC Robertson-Glasgow wrote of the English reaction "... a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal". Bradman still holds the following significant records for Test match cricket: Bradman's Test batting average of 99.94 has become one of cricket's most famous, iconic statistics. No other player who has played more than 20 Test match innings
Jack Ryder (cricketer) made a selector again and held the post for 23 years, forming a long association with Sir Donald Bradman and Chappie Dwyer. He remains the only Test cricketer to be run out in both innings of his debut Test match. Ryder was also the first Australian to complete a Test Career of more than 20 innings with a batting average over 50.00. He was the oldest former player present at the Centenary Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1977. He died just weeks after the match. Ryder's long district cricket career for which he is best known spanned 37