South African cricket team in England in 1924

The South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England.

England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn.

The South African team

The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were:

George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop.[1]

Test series summary

First Test
14–17 June 1924
(3-day match)
Scorecard
v
438 (124 overs)
JB Hobbs 76
GM Parker 6/152 (37 overs)
30 (12.3 overs)
HW Taylor 7
AER Gilligan 6/7 (6.3 overs)
390 (f/o) (143.4 overs)
RH Catterall 120
AER Gilligan 5/83 (28 overs)
England won by an innings and 18 runs
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Umpires: HR Butt and W Reeves
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
  • 15 June were taken as rest days.
  • H Sutcliffe, APF Chapman, R Kilner, MW Tate and GEC Wood (all ENG), and MJ Susskind, HG Deane and GM Parker (all SA) made their Test debuts.
  • Parker, an expatriate fast bowler from Cape Town then playing for Eccleshill in the Bradford League, was called up to strengthen the South African bowling and responded with six wickets.[2]
  • South Africa's score of 30 at Edgbaston is still the only completed innings in Test match history where no batsman reached double figures.[3]

Second Test
28 June–1 July 1924
(3-day match)
Scorecard
v
273 (116 overs)
RH Catterall 120
RK Tyldesley 3/52 (24 overs)
531/2d (118 overs)
JB Hobbs 211
GM Parker 2/121 (24 overs)
240 (123.4 overs)
MJ Susskind 53
RK Tyldesley 3/50 (36 overs)
England won by an innings and 18 runs
Lord's, London
Umpires: F Chester and HI Young
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 29 June was taken as a rest day.
  • RK Tyldesley (ENG) made his Test debut.
  • The England score of 531-2d is the highest Test innings in which all who batted scored at least a half-century.[3]
  • Parker ended his third and final first-class match as the only South African Test cricketer not to play first-class cricket in his own country.[4]

Third Test
12–15 July 1924
(3-day match)
Scorecard
v
396 (116 overs)
EH Hendren 132
SJ Pegler 4/116 (35 overs)
132 (51.3 overs)
HW Taylor 59*
MW Tate 6/42 (17 overs)
60/1 (22.2 overs)
H Sutcliffe 29*
J Blanckenberg 1/23 (10 overs)
323 (f/o) (127 overs)
HW Taylor 56
RH Catterall 56
RK Tyldesley 3/63 (24 overs)
England won by 9 wickets
Headingley, Leeds
Umpires: W Reeves and AE Street
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 13 July was taken as a rest day.

Fourth Test
26–29 July 1924
(3-day match)
Scorecard
v
116/4 (66.5 overs)
TA Ward 50
MW Tate 3/34 (24 overs)
Match drawn
Old Trafford, Manchester
Umpires: HR Butt and AE Street
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 27 July was taken as a rest day.
  • There was no play on the second or third days.
  • JCW MacBryan, G Geary and G Duckworth (all ENG) made their Test debuts.

Fifth Test
16–19 August 1924
(3-day match)
Scorecard
v
342 (124 overs)
RH Catterall 95
MW Tate 3/64 (29 overs)
421/8 (131 overs)
EH Hendren 142
CP Carter 3/85 (23 overs)
Match drawn
The Oval, London
Umpires: HR Butt and F Chester
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
  • 17 August was taken as a rest day.

References
  1. "South Africa to England 1924". Test Cricket Tours. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. Frindall, Bill (2000). The Wisden Book Of Test Cricket: Volume 1 1877-1970. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 0747272735.
  3. Walmsley, Keith (2003). Mosts Without in Test Cricket. Reading, England: Keith Walmsley Publishing Pty Ltd. p. 457. ISBN 0947540067..
  4. Frindall, Bill (2000). The Wisden Book Of Test Cricket: Volume 1 1877-1970. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 156. ISBN 0747272735.

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