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Langer plays down beating Bradman record

Updated on: 24 July,2009 09:08 AM IST  | 
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Justin Langer shrugged off surpassing Don Bradman as Australia's highest scoring batsman in first-class cricket yesterday.

Langer plays down beating Bradman record

Justin Langer shrugged off surpassing Don Bradman as Australia's highest scoring batsman in first-class cricket yesterday.



The 38-year-old Somerset captain went past Bradman's total of 28,067 runs when making 107 - his 86th first-class century and 100th hundred in all competitions - in his side's 428 for six against Worcestershire in the English county championship.



The New Road venue was the ground where Bradman scored three double centuries - 236 in 1930, 206 in 1934 and 258 in 1938 - and then signed off with 107 on his final visit in 1948.



Langer, who has now scored 28,080 runs, said: "I'm thrilled to beat the record.


"Not so much to go past him because Bradman is in a league of his own. But just scoring this many runs is a tribute to having played for such a long time and having worked so hard to score lots of runs."

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