Australian cricketer Donald Bradman’s Test cap sold at auction

Sir Donald Bradman during the 1948 tour of England (PA)

Sir Donald Bradman’s first baggy green Test cap has been sold for 450,000 Australian dollars (£253,000) at auction, the second-highest price paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia.

Australian businessman Peter Freedman, who earlier this year paid nine million Australian dollars (£5 million) at an auction for a guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradman’s Test debut cap around Australia.