PREVIOUS TESTS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 7

PREVIOUS TESTS

LOW SCORES AND HIGH SCORES RECORDED. - . Thirty-four Test matches have been played between England and South Africa since 1888-89, the season when the first tour took, place. Of these England have won 21 'matches, South Africa 8. and' 5 have been drawn. South" Africa .have never, won a Test match in England, and of the eight to their . credit, '.two have been won at Capetown/ one at Durban, and five at Johannesburg. Only six Tests-have been played in England, of which, four were won by the Home, sideband two were drawn. The first Test game was commenced at Port Elizabeth on 12th March,. 1889, and' England won by eight wickete. The first over on that 'occasion,' a maiden to A. R. Innes, was bowled by Briggs (England), and the first scoring hit—a 2, fifteen minutes from the start—was made by A. B. Tancred, The first nine overs, in which two wickets .fell) were maidens— five by Briggs and four by Fothergill. England have visited South Africa on eight tours—in 1888-89, 1891-92, 1895-96. 1898-99, 1805-1906 ; 1909:10, 1913-14, and 1922-23—while South Africa has visited the Homeland, twice, exclusive of the present tour—in 1907 and '1912. Heavy defeats have been administered by England on several previous occasions. During the 1888-89 tour the visitors won by an innings and 202 runs at Capetown, by an innings and 197 at Johannesburg in 1895^96, by an innings and 189 at Capetown iv ,1891-92, and by an innings and- 157 -.at Durban in 1913-14. England also won by 288 runs 'at Port Elizabeth in 1895-96, and by 210 at Capetown in 1898-99..' South Africa have not been without substantial-vic-tories, winning by an innings and 16 runs "at.Capetown in 1905-1906. and by 243 -nilis -,-it" Johannesburg during llin siima. torn-. -England's' largest imiiugs was 482, snored ;it 'Johannesburg in 1895-96; 450, at . Durban in 1913-14; .425 4 .at Lords ia 1807. and a^.Xtobag

in 1922-23; 417, at Capetown in ISO9--a '7n 1 ' afc ■ Port Elizabeth in 1915J.4; and 403, at Johannesburg the same season. South Africa's only. total of 400 ?6o^ 6 iß^ir -420- at Johannesburg in 1922-23. Their liighest score in JEngland previous to the present tour was | 217 at liords in 1912.- ■ : ' ! Once before South. Africa scored; only ] 30 in a Test.match against England—ax Port Elizabeth in 1395-95. Other lew scores by South Africa were 35 at Cane--0^ nJ? ff 98-"> a^ 43> (second innin|s)i ?RRRRQ(^ Sfci imillgal at Capetown-in 1888-89 Only; once has England faiJed to reach three figures, -that occasion, bemS at Leeds in 1907. when the. side o ,T^, e 7 g matches played have produced 25,756 runs for 1158 wickets,^an average of 22.24. England have scored 13,609 of these runs for 537 wicketa, average 25.34, and South Africa ha^e scored 12 147 runs for 621 wickets, average 19.56! In' England 3722 runs have been' made for 198 wjekets, average 18.79, and in South Africa' 22,034 runs for 960 wickets average. 22.95. ..•■•■ _ Of -the 'players who ale taking part in the, present Test, F. E. WooUey has played for -England-against. South Afnca on several, occasions, and has already 727 runs':and. 21 wickets'to his credit in Test (Cricket- between the -two countries. In 1922-23 he'ecoi-ed 115 hot out at Johannesburg, -when he played-on first ball to'Av E. Hall without a bail being dislodged. He has-had 29 innings, arid has an average of 27.96. : J. B. Hobbs, another English player talcing part in the present match, has played 22 'innings in Tests'against South Africa, has been three times not out, • his highest score being 187, with a total aggregate of 1145 runs, and an average of 60.26.-: ■'■■„;'.-■, . ■■_ A. E. E. Gilligan and P. G. H. Fender have also previously come, to grips with the South Africans,: having batting averages of 22.66 and 14.22 respectively < _.Eour .South Africans,, in . the1 latest lest have played against England before. ' E. H. Catterall has played 9 innings for 272 ■ runs, his highest,. score being 76 and his' average 30.'22. A. D. .Nourse, 49 ; .innings/' 4' times not ".out" total runs-1277, 'highest score 93 nof out, average 28.37. -H.W. Taylor,1 captain of the team, has had 25 . innings for .1158 runs, his highest score? being " 1/6, and m: addition he has three other centuries- to, his credit his average being 46.32. J. M., Blanckenberg has scored a total of 194 runs arid has captured 44 'wickets; •-,- '. .-,..-.- v