Tour of Australia 1910-11             Captain: Percy Sherwell
	Second official Test tour     First Test-playing tour of Australia by South Africa            (October 1910   -             March 1911)	South Africa had beaten an MCC touring team in 1909-10 by three Test matches to two, played on matting pitches, and there was speculation how their googly bowlers would fare against a formidable Australian side on turf. From the first day of the Test series on which Australia powered to a record 494 runs, the bowlers failed to gain an upper hand. Vogler was most disappopinting but Schwarz at least ended the series with 25 wickets. Faulkner showed amply that he had taken over Monty Noble’s reputation as the world greatest all-round cricketer. South Africa lost four Tests but recorded a great victory in the third match at Adelaide, the heaviest scoring Test match played. The Australian Board of Control insisted on this tour as a preliminary to the 1912 Triangular Tournament but could not give satisfactory cash guarantees to the South African Cricket Authority. Unsettled by the wariness of Major Trevor, they decided to abandon the tour in early June 1910.  By the end of the month The Sun newspaper had offered to meet their financial demands but South Africa declined it on a point of principle; whereupon the Australian Board ended the deadlock by producing adequate guarantees, and the tour was on again. However, negotiations for the team to include touring New Zealand in their programme did fall through. ‘Tip’ Snooke and Gordon White said they could not risk their prospects of promotion in the mining groups emplying them and withdrew on 21 September until two days later Snooke reconsidered his decision.	Other South African tours       Previous Tour England 1907   Next tour England 1912       Next tour of Australia 1931-32
	Members of the Test tour party  (14  +  1)     Opening batsmen:  Billy Zulch, Louis Stricker Middle-order batsmen:  Dave Nourse, Aubrey Faulkner, Mickey Commaille, Maitland Hathorn, Ormerod Pearse, Charles Llewellyn Wicket-keepers: Percy Sherwell, Tom Campbell Slow bowlers:  Ernie Vogler, Reggie Schwarz, Sid Pegler (and Jimmy Sinclair). Fast bowler: Sibley ‘Tip’ Snooke	T Campbell T 28 second WK   J M M Commaille WP 27 RHB   G A Faulkner T 28 RHB   LBG   C M H Hathorn (T) 32 RHB   C B Llewellyn (N) 34 LHB    LM   A W Nourse N 32 LHB   LFM   C O C Pearse N 26 RHB  (RM)   S J Pegler T 22 LB / RM   R O Schwartz T 35 RHB   OB / LBG    vice-captain   P W Sherwell (T) 30 RHB    WK     captain   S J Snooke T 29 RFM   L A Stricker T 26 RHB  opener   A E E Vogler T 34 LBG   J W Zulch T 24 RHB  opener	The Union of South Africa came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the previously separate colonies (Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal and Orange River Colony)   Representation of teams:       N – Natal (3) T – Transvaal (10) WP - Western Province (1)   Hathorn and Sherwell had not represented Transvaal for five years, nor Llewellyn Natal         Average age of  team at time of first Test match    (9 December 1910) : 29 yrs  11 months.
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Sinclair 20,  Nourse 16,  Faulkner 13,  Snooke 13,  Vogler 13,  Schwarz 12,  Hathorn 11,  Sherwell 8,  Commaille 5,  Llewellyn 5,  Zulch 5,  Campbell 4,  Stricker 4,  Pegler 1,  Pearse 0.
	Team Officials	R P Fitzgerald Manager W Ferguson Baggage/scorer
	Selectors	.
	Selection	Mr R P Fitzgerald was named as manager. He was a native of Victoria but resident in Cape Town. Unavailable:  Percy Sherwell looked unlikely to be available to lead the tour owing to business reasons. Frank Mitchell was standing by.  South Africa’s only fast bowler Johannes Kotze was unavailable. A preliminary tour squad was announced including opening batsman Archie Difford (Transvaal) and Frank Mitchell. Tour Party Announced :  12 September 1910. Withdrawal:  G C White (T) 28  and S.J. Snooke, who then changed his mind. W S Taberer (Rhodesia),  H W Taylor (Natal)  and F L le Roux (Transvaal) were mentioned as possible replacements for White, but eventually Sinclair was brought into the squad. Not selected : fast bowler Norton (Cape Colony), slow left-armer Claude Carter (Transvaal).	Time between selection and departure from South Africa   25 days (12 September to 7 October)
	Travel	Pegler left his home for Durban on 23 September and he, Pearse and Nourse went to Cape Town on the 'Walmer Castle'. The Johannesburg players left for the Cape on Monday 3 October by rail. There were pre-tour practice matches against Transvaal and Western Province. On 6 October the Blue Anchor liner 'Commonwealth' arrived from London. Llewellyn, after his final county appearance for Hampshire, had sailed on it. Now the rest of the team boarded the ship at Cape Town docks.  Manager Fitzgerald took his wife, four children and nurse. White was still undecided on the day of departure about whether to join the tour. Leaving Cape Town on 7 October, the steamer touched no Australian port before finally berthing at Port Adelaide on 26 October.	Time spent in    145 days (26 October - 20 March)
	On-tour selection panel	Sherwell,  Nourse,  Faulkner and  Fitzgerald.
	Reinforcements	P.Addison and M C Blackett played in the pre-tour practice match against Western Province until Hathorn and Commaille arrived. Mortimer Blackett was a reporter for the Johannesburg Star accompanying the team to Australia.   J H Sinclair T 34 RHB  LB   On 29 October, when the team was already in Australia, it was announced that Jimmy Sinclair would come in for White.  Sinclair arrived in Melbourne on 27 November. Hathorn’s health was too poor for him to continue the tour for the last two months. It was intended he would return early to South Africa but he remained in Victoria until the end of the tour.
	Fixtures/Results	a Johannesburg Transvaal  (pre-tour) Drawn b Cape Town Western Province  (pre-tour) Won inns 19 r         c Adelaide South Australia Won 281 r d Melbourne Victoria Lost 5 w e Sydney New South Wales Lost 3 w f Brisbane Queensland Won 122 r g †  Toowomba Toowomba Won inns 11 r h Brisbane An Australian XI Drawn i SYDNEY  AUSTRALIA  First Test LOST inns 114 r j †  Newcastle Newcastle Won 5 w k †  Sydney Australian Universities Drawn l †  Bendigo Bendigo Won inns 41 r m MELBOURNE  AUSTRALIA  Second Test LOST 89 r n ADELAIDE  AUSTRALIA  Third Test WON 38 r o Launceston Tasmania Won 209 r p Hobart Tasmania Drawn q †  Hamilton Hamilton (Victoria) Won inns 30 r r †  Ballarat Ballarat Won inns 206 r s Melbourne Victoria Won 8 w t MELBOURNE  AUSTRALIA  Fourth Test LOST 530 r u Sydney New South Wales Lost 44 r v SYDNEY  AUSTRALIA  Fifth Test LOST 7 w w Adelaide South Australia Won 6 w x †  Broken Hill Broken Hill Won inns 278 r	† not first-class   Time spent in Australia before First Test:  44 days (26 October - 9 December)
	Test appearances on tour	5   - Faulkner,  Llewellyn,  Nourse,  Schwartz,  Sherwell,  Sinclair,  Snooke,  Stricker,  Zulch. 4   -  Pegler 3   -  Pearse 2   -  Vogler 1   -  Hathorn 0   -  Campbell,  Commaille.
	Match appearances	see below
	Highlights	•   Aubrey Faulkner scored South Africa’s first Test double century, 204, at Melbourne. •   Faulkner scored another century (115) in the victory at Adelaide and five other fifties, giving him a record series aggregate of 732 runs subsequently exceeded by Walter Hammond and Don Bradman. It remains South Africa’s highest run total in a series. •   Zulch (105) and Snooke (103) also scored centuries in the Adelaide Test match. •   Reggie Schwarz took 25 wickets in the series, including five wickets in an innings twice. •   Billy Zulch rounded off the series with an innings of 150 at Sydney.
	Tour Summary	excluding pre-tour matches  P  W L D Aban Test Matches   5  1 4 0 - Other first-class matches 10  5 3 2 - Minor matches   7  6 1 0 - All Matches 22 12 8 2 -
	Return to South Africa	On 22 March Schwarz sailed from Melbourne on the ‘Otranto’ for England (where he was private secretary to Sir Abe Bailey).  Faulkner remained for a few weeks’ stay in Melbourne before returning to South Africa. The team sailed home in the ‘Ascanius’, departing from Port Adelaide on Monday 20 March 1911. They arrived back in Durban on Mondau 10 April 1911 and Cape Town the next day.  In response to shouts of ‘speech!’ Sherwell admitted they had not come back victorious because they were beaten by a better side.	Time away from South Africa    186 days   (7 October - 11 April
	Finances	The Australian public supported the tour well and a profit was returned. Vogler’s fee for the tour (£475) was withheld by the South African Cricket Union because they believed his performances were affected by excessive drinking.
	Published accounts of the tour

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