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South African cricket team in England in 1924

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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 squad

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On 3 January 1924, the selectors named a 15-man squad for the tour of England.[1] Billy Zulch was considered the most notable omission although he had only recently returned to playing cricket during the 1923–24 Currie Cup.[2] Before leaving South Africa, captain Herbie Taylor indicated that Sid Pegler would be given a chance on the tour despite him not being in the original squad selection.[3]

The squad set sail from Cape Town on 4 April aboard the Arundel Castle, arriving in Southampton on 21 April.[4][5]

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  • The ages and Test caps are as at the start of the tour (3 May 1924).

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, who had held the role on three previous tours of England.[7]

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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.[8]
  • South Africa's score of 30 at Edgbaston is still the only completed innings in Test match history where no batsman reached double figures.[9]
  • The 75 balls in the South African 2nd innings is still the fewest balls in a completed Test match innings.

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.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • The first of only five occasions where a side has lost only two wickets while winning a Test match.[11]

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.
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