Bradman’s cap fetches Rs 2.63 cr at auction

Sir Don Bradman’s iconic baggy green cap fetched a staggering Rs 2.63 crore after the rare piece of cricketing history was put up for auction here on Tuesday. Auction house Bonhams said Bradman wore the cap — almost 80 years old — during India’s 1947-48 tour of Australia, his last Test series on home soil.

The cap was bought for a price of Rs 2.14 crore before the buyer’s premium was added to the fee. The auction described the cap as “sun faded and worn”, with “some insect damage” and “some loss to (the) edge of (the) peak”.

Widely regarded as cricket’s greatest-ever batter, Bradman amassed 715 runs in six innings at an average of 178.75 in that Test series against India, with three centuries and a double hundred as Australia won 4-0.