The South African national cricket team toured

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during the 1904 season, playing 22 matches. Most of them were against regular first-class sides, but there were also matches against an England XI (with five players who had already played Test cricket), against

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(with two Test players) and a South of England side with five Test players. The tourists won ten of their 22 matches, and lost two against

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and

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. They did not manage to beat any of the top four sides in the Championship, though; they drew with Lancashire and Yorkshire (twice), lost to Kent and tied with Middlesex. No

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were played.

The South African team

* Frank Mitchell (captain) *

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* Charlie Llewellyn *

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* Reggie Schwarz *

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* George Shepstone * Jimmy Sinclair *

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* Gordon White (cricketer) Frank Mitchell also played first-class cricket for

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during the season, which helped him score more than 1,000 first-class runs in the season. 839 of those were made for South Africa;

(1217) and

were the two players to make more than 1,000 runs for the South Africans only. On the bowling side, pace bowler

headed the attack, claiming 104 wickets in his 22 matches for the South Africans.Player Oracle Reveals Results
from CricketArchive, retrieved 5 August 2006

References

External links

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