Toby's right that it reads like a typo, and here's the bit that gets me every time: the sum is so nearly tidy it hurts. Bradman finished with 6,996 Test runs and 70 dismissals. Four more runs at The Oval in 1948 and it's 7,000 divided by 70. One hundred, flat, no decimal point in sight.

So the most famous number in cricket exists because of four runs that never happened. Nobody would have remembered 100. Everybody remembers 99.94 (it's on the postal code of the Bradman Museum's home in Bowral, near enough, and on plenty of number plates besides).

The near miss did the immortalising. Which is a thing arithmetic almost never gets to do.