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Cootamundra

New South Wales, Australia

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Cootamundra, town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the Western Slopes region of the fertile Riverina.

Cootamundra was founded in 1830 as a livestock station. Its name (Cootamundry until 1952) is Aboriginal for “swamp with turtles.” The town, proclaimed in 1861, was made a municipality in 1884 and a shire in 1975. On the principal Sydney-Melbourne rail line, Cootamundra is also the rail and road junction for routes serving the state’s central region, which produces sheep, wheat, and some gold. The town is a major livestock auction centre and conducts one of the largest sheep shows in the state. It is linked to Sydney (190 miles [300 km] northeast) by air and has flour and rice mills, butter factories, and slaughterhouses. Furniture, plaster, concrete, cordials, and small goods are manufactured. Pop. (2006) local government area, 7,315; (2011) local government area, 7,334.

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Don Bradman

Australian cricketer

Also known as: Sir Donald George Bradman

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Byname of:: Sir Donald George Bradman

Born:: August 27, 1908, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia

Died:: February 25, 2001, Adelaide, South Australia (aged 92)

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Don Bradman (born August 27, 1908, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia—died February 25, 2001, Adelaide, South Australia) was an Australian cricketer, one of the greatest run scorers in the history of the game and often judged the greatest player of the 20th century.

In Test (international) matches Bradman scored 6,996 runs for Australia and set a record with his average of 99.94 runs per contest. He scored 19 centuries (100 runs in a single innings) in Test matches against England between 1928 and 1948. On his first visit to England, in 1930, he established a Test record (eventually broken) by scoring 334 runs in one innings; in 1934, also in England, he had an innings of 304 runs. In 1948 he was captain of the Australian team that was victorious in England, four matches to none. He retired from first-class cricket in 1949 and was knighted in the same year.

Bradman, as a youth, perfected his timing by hitting a golf ball against a water tank. He developed a quick eye, deft footwork, and an uncanny judgment of bowling and also became a brilliant outfieldsman. He wrote a volume of reminiscences, Farewell to Cricket (1950), and a coaching manual, The Art of Cricket (1958).

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