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A baggy greenish headdress worn by Donald Bradman fetched A$460,000 (U.S.$319,000) astatine nationalist auction successful Australia connected Monday (January 26, 2026), a grounds terms for a headdress worn by the Australian cricket legend.
The terms paid for the cap, erstwhile a 16.5% buyer’s premium of A$75,900 is added, totals A$535,900, beating the erstwhile grounds holder, a baggy greenish from the aforesaid bid – against India successful 1947/48 – that was sold successful 2024.
That headdress was bought for A$479,700, including the buyer’s premium, astatine auction.
Bradman, who died aged 92 successful 2001, had fixed the headdress sold connected Monday (January 26) to Indian all-rounder Sriranga Wasudev ‘Ranga’ Sohoni.
Inside, it bears the inscriptions: ‘D.G. Bradman’ and ‘S.W. Sohoni’.
Back successful Bradman’s time the baggy greenish headdress was awarded for each bid they played – a opposition to the contiguous time wherever lone 1 is handed retired connected Test debut.
Sohoni’s household looked aft the headdress until it was enactment up for auction – Sohoni died successful 1993 aged 75.
The purchaser requested anonymity, but it volition spell connected show astatine an Australian museum.
“That’s implicit 3 generations nether fastener and key,” said Lee Hames, the Chief Operating Officer of Lloyds Auctioneers and Valuers, who held the auction.
“If you were a household subordinate you were lone allowed to look astatine it erstwhile you were 16-years-old for 5 minutes,” helium said.
The bid was notable for being India’s archetypal arsenic an autarkic state and Bradman’s past connected location soil.
Bradman made it a memorable one, scoring 715 runs – including his 100th first-class period – arsenic the Australians romped to a 4-0 bid win.
Bradman is wide regarded arsenic cricket’s greatest-ever batter and averaged 99.94 successful his 52-match Test career.
