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30 December, 2025
Bradman’s Baggy Green gift tipped to fetch $1m at Australia Day auction
A rare Baggy Green cap personally gifted by Sir Donald Bradman to a fellow Test cricketer is set to go under the hammer
A rare Baggy Green cap personally gifted by Sir Donald Bradman to a fellow Test cricketer is set to go under the hammer, with experts tipping it could fetch $1 million or more when it is auctioned early next year.
The cap will be offered with online bidding opening at $1 and closing on Australia Day, Monday 26 January 2026.
According to the auction house, the cap was handed directly by Bradman to a teammate who played alongside him late in his career. It has remained in the recipient’s family for more than 75 years, passed down through three generations and never publicly displayed or offered for sale.
Baggy Green caps from Bradman’s era are regarded as exceptionally rare. Players were typically issued a new cap at the start of each Test series, with very few surviving examples now in circulation. Most known caps from that period are held by museums or tightly held private collections.
The value placed on Baggy Greens was highlighted in 2020, when a cap worn by Shane Warne sold at auction for just over $1 million. That cap is now held in Bowral, at the Bradman Museum and International Cricket Hall of Fame, reinforcing both the cultural and financial significance of cricket’s most recognisable symbol, even in the modern era.
Artefacts with a clear chain of ownership and a direct personal link to Bradman are rarely seen on the open market, adding to expectations of strong bidding interest from collectors and institutions.
Bradman retired from Test cricket in 1948 with a career batting average of 99.94, a figure widely regarded as one of the greatest statistical achievements in world sport. His influence remains deeply embedded in Australia’s sporting and cultural identity.
Lloyds Auctions expects interest from private collectors, museums and cricket enthusiasts in Australia and internationally.
Perhaps, another Baggy Green for the Bradman Museum.
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