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South African Cricket Team In New Zealand In 1931–32
The inaugural Test series between the New Zealand and South Africa national cricket teams took place in New Zealand in February and March 1932. South Africa won both matches of the two-match series. New Zealand were captained by Curly Page and South Africa by Jock Cameron. The South African team arrived in New Zealand from Australia where they had played a five-match Test series, losing all five matches.Southerton SJ (1933) The South African team in Australia and New Zealand 1931–32], ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1933.Available onlineat CricInfo. Retrieved 2024-06-15.) The visit to New Zealand had not originally been part of the tour itinerary.South Africa to Australia 1931–32 Test Cricket Tours (archived September 2020). Retrieved 2024-06-15. The team played t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curly Page
Milford Laurenson "Curly" Page (8 May 1902 – 13 February 1987) was a New Zealand Test cricketer and rugby union player, who represented his country in both sports. Early life and family Born in Lyttelton on 8 May 1902, Page was the son of Olga Marguerite Smith and her husband, David Joseph Page, a produce and coal merchant. He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School where he was a champion all-round sportsman. Page had one sister and two brothers, including Frederick Page who was a professor of music, pianist and music critic. Cricket In a first-class career extending from 1920–21 to 1942–43, Page was New Zealand's second Test captain, and captained the side in seven of the Tests in which he played. He toured England in 1927, 1931 and 1937, and was captain of the team on the latter tour. He was the only player to appear in all 14 of New Zealand's Test matches before World War II. He usually batted at number four or five, bowled useful slow-medium, and acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicket-keeper
In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the Cricket player, player on the fielding (cricket), fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop Delivery (cricket), deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a Caught, catch, Stumped, stump the batsman out, or run out a batsman when occasion arises. The wicket-keeper is the only member of the fielding side permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards. The role of the keeper is governed by Law 27 and of the ''Laws of Cricket''. Stance Initially, during the bowling of the ball the wicket-keeper crouches in a full squatting position but partly stands up as the ball is received. Australian wicket-keeper Sammy Carter (1878 to 1948) was the first to squat on his haunches rather than bend over from the waist (stooping). Purposes The keeper's major function is to stop deliveries that pass the batsman (in order to prevent run (cricket), runs being scored as 'byes'), but he can also attempt to dismissal (cricket), dismiss the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Vincent
Cyril Leverton Vincent (16 February 1902 – 24 August 1968) was a South African cricketer who played in 25 Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Test cricket * Indoor cricket, Test match (indoor cricket) * Test match (rugby union) * Test match (rugby league) * Test match (associa ... from 1927 to 1935. He was later chairman of the South African selectors. References External links * * 1902 births 1968 deaths Gauteng cricketers South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers 20th-century South African sportsmen {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Viljoen
Kenneth George Viljoen (14 May 1910 – 21 January 1974) was a South African cricketer who played in 27 Test matches from 1930–31 to 1948–49. Making his Test debut in 1930, he played his first and last Tests against England. He was later a manager of post–World War II South African teams. He was born in Windsorton, Cape Province, and died in Krugersdorp, Transvaal Transvaal is a historical geographic term associated with land north of (''i.e.'', beyond) the Vaal River in South Africa. A number of states and administrative divisions have carried the name ''Transvaal''. * South African Republic (1856–1902; .... References 1910 births 1974 deaths Free State cricketers Gauteng cricketers Griqualand West cricketers South Africa Test cricketers Afrikaner people South African people of Dutch descent South African cricketers Cricketers from the Northern Cape {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbie Taylor
Herbert Wilfred Taylor (5 May 1889 – 8 February 1973) was a South African cricketer who played 42 Test matches for his country including 18 as captain of the side. Specifically a batsman, he was an expert on the matting pitches which were prevalent in South Africa at the time and scored six of his seven centuries at home. His batting was also noted for quick footwork and exceptional 'backplay'. He became the first South African to pass 2,500 Test runs and was selected one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1925. In domestic cricket, he played for Natal, Transvaal and Western Province. Taylor's greatest achievement is generally reckoned to be scoring 508 runs at an average of 50.80 in the 1913–14 Test series against England, in spite of English bowler Sydney Barnes taking a record 49 wickets in the series at 10.93. The cricket historian H.S. Altham wrote: "The English cricketers were unanimous that finer batting than his against Barnes at his best they never hoped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Quinn
Neville Anthony Quinn (21 February 1908 – 5 August 1934) was a cricketer who played in 12 Test matches for South Africa from 1929 to 1931–32. Early cricket career A left-handed lower-order batsman and a left-arm medium fast bowler, Quinn played first-class cricket for Griqualand West from the 1927–28 season. The following season, in only his third first-class game, he took eight Border first-innings wickets for 37 runs, and this remained his best innings bowling performance. He followed that with six for 19 in 24 overs against Transvaal in the next match, and that secured his place on the 1929 South African tour to England. Tour to England He made his Test debut on the tour to England in 1929. He found the bowling conditions of a dry English summer suited his swing bowling, and played in four of the five Tests. He took 6–92 in England's first innings in the Third Test at Headingley, the only 5-wicket haul in his short Test career, and came second in the tourists' bowli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Mitchell (cricketer)
Bruce Mitchell (8 January 1909 – 1 July 1995) was a South African cricketer who played in 42 Test cricket, Test matches from 1929 to 1949. He was a right-handed opening batsman and played in every Test South Africa played in that period. By the end of his career he had 3471 Test runs to his name which at the time was a national record. With his eight centuries he finished just behind Dudley Nourse who made 9. Early life The son of a doctor, Mitchell grew up in Johannesburg, where he showed unusual cricket ability as a boy. At the age of six he was coached by Ernest Halliwell, the former South African Test captain. At school at St. John's College, Johannesburg, he received further coaching from the school's cricket coach, A. G. MacDonald. In his teens he used his large hands to master leg-spin bowling.Louis Duffus, ''Cricketers of the Veld'', Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1946, pp. 26–28. Early first-class career Mitchell made his first-class debut for Transvaal, agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dalton
Eric Londesbrough Dalton (2 December 1906 – 3 June 1981) was a South African cricketer who played in 15 Test matches from 1929 to 1938–39. He was born and died in Durban, Natal. He was part of the South African team that toured England in 1929 playing a solitary Test at Lord's where he scored 6 and 1. Towards the end of the tour he had a remarkable game at Canterbury, making his career highest score , scoring 157 in the first innings and adding 116 not out in the second when with the tourists facing defeat he added 100 in 52 minutes with AL Ochse in a last wicket partnership which saved the game. In a match against Tasmania during the 1931–32 South African tour of Australia, Dalton had his jaw broken by a bouncer from Laurie Nash, who was on a hat-trick at the time. In 1935, Dalton was a member of the South African team that won a Test match in England for the first time. During the match at Lord's, although not especially noted for his bowling, he took the key wicke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Curnow
Sydney Harry Curnow (16 December 1907 – 28 July 1986) was a South African cricketer who played in seven Test matches in the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons. He was born in Benoni, Transvaal and died at Perth, Western Australia, having emigrated there in the early 1970s. His father was W. S. Curnow, a South African mining engineer, and his mother was a Miss Francis McAuliffe who came from Launceston, Tasmania. Test cricket Curnow was a right-handed opening batsman. He made his first-class debut for Transvaal in 1928–29. In his third first-class match, the first of the 1929–30 season, he hit 99 against Natal. He followed this up with 108 in the next match, which was against Griqualand West. Then in his third match of the season he made 162 against Orange Free State. There was no Test cricket in South Africa that season, but the following year, England toured, and Curnow made an unbeaten 83 in an early-season match against the touring side. That led to his selection for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Brown
Lennox Sydney Brown (24 November 1910 – 1 September 1983) was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1931–32. Len Brown was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who turned to bowling leg-breaks and googlies later in his career. His first-class cricket career began with two matches for Transvaal against the 1930–31 English touring team and he took seven wickets in his first match, including Wally Hammond and Percy Chapman twice each. He was then picked, as the youngest member of the team, for the 1931–32 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Brown was rarely part of the touring team's first eleven in the major matches, but after a bad showing in the first Test match, which was lost by an innings and 163 runs, he played in a non-first-class match against a New South Wales Country XI and, bowling throughout the Country XI's first innings, took five wickets for 57 runs, with another couple of wickets in the second innings. Tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Bell
Alexander John Bell (15 April 1906 – 1 August 1985) was a South African cricketer who played in 16 Test matches from 1929 to 1935. Bell was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He made his first-class debut for Western Province in two matches in 1925–26 without making much impact, but returned to the team in the 1928–29 season. In his first match back, he took five Orange Free State wickets for 53 runs (and three more in the second innings). That and good performances in two other matches saw him selected for the 1929 South African tour of England. Tour to England in 1929 As a junior member of the team, Bell played in few of the early matches, but towards the end of May he took six Gloucestershire wickets for 68 in the match at Bristol. He was then given limited opportunities in the first team in the matches leading up to the first Test match, for which he was not selected. Injuries before the second Test to the bowlers Neville Quinn and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xen Balaskas
Xenophon Constantine Balaskas (15 October 1910 – 12 May 1994), sometimes known as Xen or Bally, was a South African cricketer. He was an all-rounder who went onto score 2,696 first-class cricket runs at 28.68 and went onto take 276 wickets at 24.11 with his crafty leg-spin bowling. He was the first test cricketer as well as the first international cricketer whose name started with the English alphabetical letter "X". He was also fondly nicknamed as the "Saxophone" by his teammates. He played a pivotal role in South Africa's historic first ever test win in English soil. Biography He was born in Kimberley to Greek immigrant parents. His parents also apparently owned the first restaurant in the diamond town of Kimberley. He died in Hyde Park, Johannesburg at the age of 83. Career Balaskas made his first-class debut for Griqualand West in 1926/27, but did not really break through until 1929/30. In that year he topped both the runs and wickets lists in the Currie Cup by tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
