Fawad Ahmed's story of fleeing Pakistan when his life was threatened by the Taliban because he coached girls to play cricket and promoted western values, is being taught to primary school students in Modern Australian History.

And 69-years after his last Test innings, Sir Donald Bradman's statistics are helping to foster an interest in mathematics for Year Five children via a series of lessons called Bradman by the Numbers.

The lessons are due to a Cricket Australia initiative called Cricket Smart, with the aim of the program to provide a series of tools that allow for teachers to use the nation's most popular sport – cricket - to help their students learn and retain knowledge in a fun and engaging manner.

Cricket Smart was unveiled in 2015 to coincide with the ICC World Cup being staged in Australia and New Zealand, and the lessons, which are aligned to the Australian Curriculum, include a range of resources such as short-films starring some of the country's best cricketers to help re-enforce the lesson's messages.