SYDNEY (Reuters)
Australian cricket great Sir Donald Bradman's ashes will be scattered over the oval named after him in his boyhood hometown of Bowral, cricket officials have said.

Richard Mulvaney, the director of the Bradman Museum, said one of The Don's last wishes was for his ashes to be spread over the Bradman Oval in a private ceremony for family and friends.

"It was an arrangement that was made some time before his death and certainly as the days got closer, we discussed it at great length," Mulvaney told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio. "It was his insistence that he meant his ashes to be scattered and he did not imagine his ashes to be lodged in the museum itself," he said.

Mulvaney would not say when the ceremony would be held, except to say that it would be within two months.

Bradman died at his Adelaide home in South Australia on February 25, aged 92. He was cremated at a family service on March 1.

Bradman was born in Cootamundra in New South Wales in 1908 but was raised in Bowral, 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Sydney. He made his first century for Bowral High School against Mittagong in 1920.

Bradman played 52 Tests for Australia, scoring 6996 runs at an average of 99.94 in a career performance that has never been approached by another player.

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