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Bradman Oval is a heritage-listed cricket ground in Glebe Street, Bowral in the southern highlands area of New South Wales, Australia.

By the 1830s inter-club competition had commenced in Sydney and due to the discovery of gold in the 1850s, cricket spread rapidly to the other colonies of Australia.

[2] The land on which Bradman Oval is situated was originally part of Glebe Park, granted to the Church of England by John Oxley.

[2] George and Emily Bradman moved from a farm near Cootamundra to the adjacent (1890) house at 52 Shepherd Street, Bowral, in 1911.

Every afternoon after school, Don would arrive home, run through the door, throw his satchel down in the hall and head out to the tank stand to play with his golf ball and stump.

Against the tank stand Don honed his reflexes with a golf ball, skills that saw him become the greatest batsman in Australia, with an average of 99.94.

A large parkland area dominated by a stand of mature eucalypts possibly remnants of the original vegetation.

[2] This Wikipedia article contains material from Bradman Oval and Collection of Cricket Memorabilia, entry number 01399 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 2018-06-02.