Item #55351 A detached autograph album leaf (135 x 85 mm) signed in ink by the Australian team for the Fourth Test match against England in Adelaide, 31 January and 1, 3-6 February 1947. The signatures are Bradman [Captain], Dooland, Freer [12th man], M.R. Harvey, Hassett, Ian Johnson, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon and Toshack. Cricket, 1947 Australia.
A detached autograph album leaf (135 x 85 mm) signed in ink by the Australian team for the Fourth Test match against England in Adelaide, 31 January and 1, 3-6 February 1947. The signatures are Bradman [Captain], Dooland, Freer [12th man], M.R. Harvey, Hassett, Ian Johnson, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon and Toshack

A detached autograph album leaf (135 x 85 mm) signed in ink by the Australian team for the Fourth Test match against England in Adelaide, 31 January and 1, 3-6 February 1947. The signatures are Bradman [Captain], Dooland, Freer [12th man], M.R. Harvey, Hassett, Ian Johnson, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon and Toshack

Apart from two tiny filing holes along the top edge away from the signatures, the leaf is in excellent condition. Offered together with the official 'Fourth Test Illustrated Souvenir Programme and Score Sheet. Adelaide Oval 1947' [cover title] and a facsimile 'MCC Tour in Australia & New Zealand 1946-47' signature sheet (205 x 140 mm). The match summary in Webster supplies some interesting statistics: Compton and Morris provided the first instance of two batsmen scoring centuries in each innings in the same Test; Lindwall ended the England first innings with three wickets in four balls; Bradman scored a duck in his first innings and Evans batted for 95 minutes in the second innings before scoring his first run, a record for all first-class cricket. 'Neil Harvey rated his oldest brother Mervyn as "the best" cricketer' of all six Harvey brothers, four of whom played first-class cricket. The war interrupted his promising career, and this match was his Test debut; 'he scored 12 and 31, partnering Arthur Morris in a 116 opening stand, but Australia was over-supplied with openers, and it remained his solitary Test' (Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket). The match was drawn.

Item #55351

Price (AUD): $900.00

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