Two letters written by the late Sir Donald Bradman to former Australian Test captain Greg Chappell have been sold for £6,700. They were auctioned at Christie's of Melbourne as part of the Greg Chappell collection, which sold for a total of £64,300 and included two baggy caps which fetched £6,700 each.

The two letters, expected to fetch between £1,800 and £3,600, were bought by a local buyer. They were the most controversial of the letters between the two men, being written shortly after Chappell joined Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in 1977 and revealing a wide rift between the two. Three other letters between them were sold together for £2,500.

Chappell's decision to sell the letters had been opposed by the Bradman Foundation. Bradman's son, John, claimed that his famous father would have been unhappy that private letters were being sold in public for profit.

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