📍20 Glebe Street, Bowral, NSW 2576, Australia
1911 – 1924“My family moved to Bowral, a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, when I was two and a half, and I grew up at 20 Glebe Street, right across the road from the Glebe Park cricket ground. My father, George, was a carpenter. Behind our house was a water tank standing on a curved brick base, and day after day I took my stance at the back door — that was the wicket — and threw a golf ball at the brick stand, hitting it on the rebound with a single cricket stump. The ball came back at lightning speed and at wild angles off the uneven paving, and I had to watch it every inch of the way; it gave me the reflexes and footwork I relied on for the rest of my life. I scored my first century for my school at twelve and played for Bowral against men. By twenty I was playing for Australia, and I finished with a Test batting average of 99.94. The town later bought the ground opposite my old house and renamed it Bradman Oval, and the Bradman Museum stands beside it.”
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