{"id":38226,"date":"2019-08-31T16:04:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=38226"},"modified":"2021-12-12T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T02:22:18","slug":"incredible-images-reveal-the-first-ever-bat-used-by-australian-cricket-legend-don-bradman-as-google-digitally-restores-a-treasure-trove-of-memorabilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/incredible-images-reveal-the-first-ever-bat-used-by-australian-cricket-legend-don-bradman-as-google-digitally-restores-a-treasure-trove-of-memorabilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible images reveal the first EVER bat used by Australian cricket legend Don Bradman as Google digitally restores a treasure trove of memorabilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #f21651;\">Incredible images reveal the first EVER bat used by Australian cricket legend Don Bradman as Google digitally restores a treasure trove of memorabilia<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> . <span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>First ever bat of Don Bradman, now more than a century old, is imaged in incredible definition\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><strong>The Google Arts &amp; Culture project\u00a0 includes a look at some of cricket&#8217;s most iconic places and artefacts<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Other bats include Dennis Lillie&#8217;s\u00a0aluminium one and one used by Victor Trumper in the 19th century\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">A range of priceless cricket memorabillia, including the first bat of Don Bradman have been digitally restored by oogle Arts and Culture to bring the sport&#8217;s rich history to life in the wake of a rejuvination of the &#8216;gentlemen&#8217;s game&#8217; in the public eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Its present continues to enthral spectators, with the heroics of Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer during the latest Ashes test and the World Cup final last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">The worldwide cricket audience was left stunned, mesmerised and borderline aghast at the majesty and audacity of the all-rounder as he struck a record-breaking 135* in the final innings to wrest victory from the imposing jaws of defeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">His knock saw him etch his name at the very pinnacle of cricket history, with an innings that will go down in folklore after salvaging the Ashes in sensational style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Described as &#8216;the best innings ever&#8217; by English batting giants like Geoffrey Boycott, David Gower and Sir Alastair Cook \u2014 Ben Stokes joins an elite club of players who succeeded in transcending the sport.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Google Arts and Culture has released a host of gigapixel pictures, interactive images and videos to mark the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38227 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman1-e1567261808277.jpg\" alt=\"Don Bradman\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>A range of history-making bats were imaged as part of the project which worked in conjunction with historians and museums on the project. As well as a guest appearance from Australian legend Steve Waugh (pictured) holidng the childhood bat of Don Bradman\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38228 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman2-e1567261879844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>The Aashes is one of the most intense and oldest rivalries in all of sports and the project from google Arts and Culture brought some of the most iconic artefacts and locations from the 127-year rivalry\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38229 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman3-e1567261949179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>Pictured, the famous piece of remembrance which sparked the infamous rivalry between the national cricket teams of England and Australia. The mock obituary was written by a journalist, Reginald Shirley Brooks and carried in the Sporting Times following England&#8217;s seven-run defeat by Australia in the one-off Test of 1882<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38235 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman4-154x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38236 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman5-154x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-imagecaption\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>Google Arts and Culture has released a host of gigapixel pictures, interactive images and videos to mark the occasion. A host of bats(pictured, Don Bradman&#8217;s first ever bat (left), the ancient willow of Aussie legend Victor Trumpan (middle) and Don BRadman&#8217;s bat with which he hit 452 at the age of just 21\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">They include fascinating detailed glances at the willow of &#8216;the greatest&#8217; batsman of all time &#8211; although Ben Stokes may soon have something to say about that nickname if his meteoric rise following an impeccable summer &#8211;\u00a0 Don Bradman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">In 1920\/21 season his brother and two uncles were playing in a game and the team was a player short, his father, the game&#8217;s umpire, called upon his 12-year-old son to make up the numbers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">It would be the start of a glittering career which would see the Australian stand alone atop many of cricket&#8217;s record lists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">He scored 12 not out and a fellow player, Sid Cupitt, gave Bradman the bat. He would etch his scores on its back to record his progress as he used the bat, which his father shortened for him to fit his youthful stature, for five seasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38237 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman6-154x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38238 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman7-138x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman8-138x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Don Bradman\" width=\"138\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>Dennis Lillie&#8217;s venture into aluminium bats (left), perhaps inspired by baseball, is digitised, as is that of Victor Trumper and Kerry Packer&#8217;s World Series bat (right) during the controversial split from the ICC over pay<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman9-810x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-imagecaption\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>Other highlights include a detailed tour of the Sydney Cricket Ground&#8217;s famous away changing room , where visiting players \u2013 from Ben Stokes to Sachin Tendulkar \u2013 have taken it upon themselves to graffiti their standout batting and bowling figures on the changing room door (pictured)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">He scored 300 with this very bat in the 1925-26 season, and it can be seen on the back of the wood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">&#8216;It was given to me by a Mr Cupitt, a member of the Bowral Town team. It was man&#8217;s size, but that did not matter,&#8217; the great Don Bradman told the Sydney Morning herald around the year 1930.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">&#8216;It was a bat with a splice, and not one chopped out the limb of a gum tree.\u00a0 That bat meant almost everything in the world to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">&#8216;With a saw my father cut three inches off the bottom and rounded it off at the foot, and I went into the paddock with my prized possession.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">&#8216;I played shots at imaginary balls till the light failed. I was happy.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">A range of other history-making bats were imaged as part of the project which worked in conjunction with historians and museums on the project. As well as a guest appearance from Australian legend Steve Waugh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Dennis Lillie&#8217;s venture into aluminium bats, perhaps inspired by baseball, is digitised, as is that of Victor Trumper and Kerry Packer&#8217;s World Series bat during the controversial split from the ICC over pay.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">The &#8216;supertests&#8217; which formed the backbone of this competition are to this day heralded as the highest standard of cricket ever played by many of the stars who participated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">However, they do not count as first class matches as the ICC refused to acknowledge the stats due to the ongoing row with Kerry Packer over broadcast rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Other highlights include a detailed tour of the Sydney Cricket Ground&#8217;s famous\u00a0away changing room, where visiting players \u2013 from Ben Stokes to Sachin Tendulkar \u2013 have taken it upon themselves to graffiti their standout batting and bowling figures on the changing room door.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_-731698194ydp3d55252ayiv3399160831m5453794756112849981gmail-mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">There are also new 360\u00b0 capability to stand in the middle of the\u00a0Melbourne Cricket Ground, with a capacity of 100,000 people making it the biggest cricket arena in the world.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38241 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman10-e1567267103448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>The &#8216;Veterans&#8217; Table&#8217; is a small wooden table with a top affixed by hinges that contains the signatures of over 300 persons who had a significant contribution to the early beginnings of Test cricket, the formation of the Sydney Cricket Ground and who participated in events at the ground<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38242 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman11-e1567267247697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>Signatures that adorn the table include, government officials, trustees, cricketers, footballers, athletes, journalists, administrators, visitors and retired players. Contained are snippets of cricket&#8217;s early development listing the grounds opening in 1878. Constructed in 1931 it served as a memorial to a passing era<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38243 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Don-Bradman12-e1567267323790.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\"><b>There are also new 360\u00b0 capability to stand in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground , with a capacity of 100,000 people making it the biggest cricket arena in the world\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Incredible images reveal the first EVER bat used by Australian cricket legend Don Bradman as Google digitally restores a treasure trove of memorabilia \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 . 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