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English Cricket Team In South Africa In 1905–06
The England cricket team toured South Africa under the auspices of the Marylebone Cricket Club from December 1905 to March 1906. There were five Test matches, and seven first-class games against South African provincial teams. While the team won a number of their first-class matches, they also lost several, and South Africa won the Test series 4 to 1. England squad * PF Warner (Middlesex) (captain) * FL Fane (Essex) * JN Crawford (Surrey) * EG Wynyard (Hampshire) * LJ Moon (Middlesex) * JC Hartley (Sussex) * HDG Leveson-Gower (Surrey) * D Denton (Yorkshire) * S Haigh (Yorkshire) * EG Hayes (Surrey) * WS Lees (Surrey) * C Blythe (Kent) * AE Relf (Sussex) * JH Board (Gloucestershire) ( wk) Jack Mason of Kent was MCC's first choice as captain, but he was unable to take the time away from his law practice. George Dennett of Gloucestershire was also invited to tour, but Gloucestershire refused to permit him to tour out of fear it would affect his bowling for the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony (), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British Empire, British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when it united with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, then became the Cape Province, which existed even after 1961, when South Africa had become a republic, albeit, temporarily outside the Commonwealth of Nations (1961–94). The British colony was preceded by an earlier corporate colony that became an Dutch Cape Colony, original Dutch colony of the same name, which was established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company, Dutch East India Company (VOC). The Cape was under VOC rule from 1652 to 1795 and under rule of the Napoleonic Batavian Republic, Batavia Republic from 1803 to 1806. The VOC lost the colony to Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain following the 1795 Invasion of the Cape Colony, Battle of Muizenberg, but it was ceded to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
