In 1938 the Australian men’s cricket team travelled overseas on the P&O liner Maloja along with the Australian women’s tennis team.

Both teams were headed to England to compete internationally. Like the tennis team, the cricket team also stopped over in Colombo, Sri Lanka and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team.  On the day it departed , the Argus called Melburnians to see off what it called the 'Sports Ship' from Station Pier, Port Melbourne. Don Bradman was then aged 29 and the captain of the Australian team. This is a relaxed portrait of one of Australia’s greatest sporting heroes just before his career was interrupted by World War II.  A video attached to this story shows another image of Bradman seated at a table with his team-mate, Ben Barnett and members of the women's tennis team.