Piece of history…

Cricket fanatics get ready to empty your wallets, as the first baggy green cap ever given to the GOAT Sir Donald Bradman for his debut Test series in 1928/1929 is heading to auction. It’s actually being put on auction by Bradman’s family friend Peter Dunham, who he gifted it to in Adelaide in 1959.

For the past 17 years however, the Dunham’s haven’t actually had the cap, loaning it to the State Library of South Australia way back in 2003, where it has since been authenticated. Now, Dunham is hoping to auction it to pay off accrued debts after scamming $1.3 million from investors after being found guilty of fraud. It’ll definitely be a sad loss for old mate, given that he grew up wearing the cap while playing club cricket in South Australia.

You can expect it to fetch quite a lot however, with the record price for an Australian baggy green hat currently belonging to Warnie’s Test cap, which copped a solid $1,007,500 them purchased by the Commonwealth Bank in January for bushfire relief (back before a global pandemic came and fucked the entire world up). But anyway, check out the piece of cricket history below and if you can, start finding your chequebooks.