That's the Adelaida evil and I'm here today to watch a day of test cricket on while I'm here, I want to tell you a story.

It's a number fire Lee type story about a cricketer who was pretty much without doubt the greatest player of all time and his name was Don Bradman.

The story of his career is often told through remarkable numbers, really big ones.

Yet the most important number, the one that brought his career toe a bit of sweet end, is the number zero.

Bradman was born in 19 8 and he played 52 test matches for Australia.

In addition to leading the Australian team toe many famous winds, Bradman's personal career was also exceptional.

England never won a test on this ground yet, but it doesn't know that I'm gonna win this one the way Redman is betting.

You see each time a cricket it goes out to bat, they contribute a personal score to the team's overall total.

Now, to fully appreciate this story, you're gonna have to understand that if a batsman's individual tally in one innings reaches 50 half century, that's pretty special.

The crowd will give them a cheer.

He completed his 15 much to the delight of the crime, but reaching 100 a century is the Holy Grail.

That'll usually get a standing ovation, the battlement acknowledging the crowd with a raised bat.

Here's a century at the Adelaide over today, Theo and he is Don Bradman, recognizing a century he wants scored.

Look at that fat in the air Don reaches 99 we can imagine the excitement of Spectators.

Then he does it Now.

Over the course of their career, a cricketer also has a batting average.

That's perhaps the best yardstick of their success, and it's easy to calculate.

Add together all those personal totals.

They're making each innings and divide by the number of times the batsman's out.

Now here's some of the best batsman of old time.

You might not recognize the mold, but take my word for it.

These are the ones with some of the highest average is, and you can see they generally average between 50 and 60.

That's considered pretty exceptional.

They're getting 1/2 century on average every time they bet.

So now what was Don Bradman's average and I try and get as many runs as I possibly can.

And if in getting those diamonds I should happen to break any record well, naturally I'm very pleased.

But I did not deliberately set out to try and break records well.

Over his 20 year career interrupted by World War Two, Bradman accrued a Siri's of remarkable scores and his average soared.

That's 200.

You can see he's average there on the right, going up and down.

You can see it passes 100 on a few occasions.

Done reaches his double century vans, already having got hit and going into his final test.

Here's the situation.

Bradman had scored 6996 runs and had been dismissed 69 times, his average incredibly over 100.

Now remember, most cricketers dream of scoring a single century in their career.

Don Bradman was about to retire, averaging a century at the highest level of the game, and here he is going out to bat in his final match in 1948.

Enter Don Bradman got a database Fredman needing just four runs before getting out that will take him to 7000 runs overall divided by 70 times out.

That's 100 as an average, four measly runs for a man who averages 100 per innings, four runs can easily be scored with a single swipe of the cricket bat.

Knowing it's his last innings, Bradman was given three cheers by his English opponents.

Very sportsmanlike follows bowling and Don playing perhaps his last test innings here.

No score here from his first ball, but that's okay.

But his second bow seized the unthinkable out for zero, noting cricket as a duck, well, it isn't often you get a big hand when you make a duct, but this was different.

Bradman's average had dipped to 99.94 where it would stay frozen for all time tantalizingly close to 100.

It's gone into cricketing folklore and almost seems fitting that a player considered so invincible ended just short of something that would have been so perfect.

Then you may wonder, why didn't Bradman postpone his retirement?

Try to remedy this, but Australia's next match was over a year away.

Bradman was now 40 years old and of course, he was now in a position where he would need to score Ah, 104 in his next innings and that would have been a tougher ask.

Now, to this day, no one has come close to Bradman's average.

He's so far above his peers that many consider him the most dominant athlete of any sport.

But it's this image of a kind of failure in his final innings that is among the most enduring.

Seeing him so fallible, it just goes to show nobody's perfect no, even Don Bradman our way.