Facts about the 334 at Headingley

 

Back to Bradman Index Australia v England Third Test Headingley, July 1930 Australia's first innings Don Bradman: 334 Age: 21 years, 318 days 1st session: 105 (only the third instance of a century before lunch on the first day of a Test. The next would be in 1976) 2nd session: 115 3rd session: 89 Reached 50: 49 minutes Reached 100: 99 minutes Reached 150: 174 minutes Reached 200: 214 minutes (still the fastest double century in Test history) Reached 288: 314 minutes This score surpasses Englishman R.E. Foster's 287 , the previous highest score in Test cricket Reached 300: 336 minutes Reached 309 not out (close day 1): 352 minutes The first and only instance of a batsman making 300 in one day of a Test match Reached 334: 383 minutes. 448 balls 158 scoring shots. 46 fours, 6 threes, 26 twos, 80 singles Youngest player to reach 1000 runs in Test cricket, and in the least number of innings (seven Tests, 13 innings) Youngest player to make 2000 runs in an English season First Australian to make two Test double centuries (the other had been a fortnight earlier in the second Test at Lord's, and he would make a third in the final Test of the series, at The Oval)