Bradman cap may break auction record
Sydney, Dec 1(IANS): The `Baggy Green´ cap won by
legendary Don Bradman on the 1948 `Invincibles´ Ashes tour
has been placed an estimated price of $600,000 to $750,000 by its
auctioneer and could well break the auction record.

`I defy anybody who tells me anything in Australian sport that is
more important or has a higher status,´ auctioneer Charles Leski
was quoted as saying the Sydney Morning Herald. The auction is set to
take place Dec 15.

`This is the single most valuable item we've ever auctioned -
sporting, Australiana, across the board,´ Leski said.

The cap is accompanied by a memo signed by Bradman in 1996, declaring
`on his twelfth birthday I gave Richard Robins one of my Aust. XI
caps´.

Robins´s father, Walter, played 19 Tests for England and was
described by Bradman as his `best pal in the cricket
world´ - despite bowling the great man with a googly to which
Bradman offered no shot in the 1930 Trent Bridge Test.

Serisier, a 47-year-old retired banker from Coffs Harbour, bought it
prior to auction in 2003, amid a campaign to return it to Australia.

A Bradman bat was recently sold for a world record $145,000.