Tour of England 1929                Captain: ‘Nummy’ Deane
	Fifth official Test tour   Fourth Test-playing tour of England by South Africa       (April - October 1924)	This was the first occasion on which the traditional arrangement of beginning a tour of England programme at Worcester was adopted. Herbie Taylor provides the first instance (until Javed Burki in 1967) of a touring captain coming to England again under the captaincy of another player. Jock Cameron was knocked unconscious by a ball from Larwood in the Lord’s Test and had to be carried off the ground; minutes later the umpires brought play to a halt for bad light. Jacobus Duminy had been omitted from the tour squad but when Taylor, Vincent and Quinn were not fit to play, he was required. He was on a business trip in Switzerland where he saw an newspaper announcement calling for him to contact the squad and he arrived in time to play in the third Test.	Other South African tours   Previous Tour England 1924   Next tour Australia 1931-32     Next tour of England 1935
	Members of the Test tour party (16)       Opening batsmen: Jack Siedle, Jim Christy, Bob Catterall. Middle-order batsmen: Bruce Mitchell,  ‘Nummy’ Deane, Herbie Taylor,  Eric Dalton, ‘Tuppy’ Owen-Smith Wicket-keepers:  Jock Cameron, Edward van der Merwe All-rounder:  Denys Morkel Slow bowlers:  Quinton McMillan, Cyril Vincent Fast bowlers: Sandy Bell, Neville Quinn, Arthur Ochse.	A J Bell WP 23 RFM   H B Cameron T 23 RHB  opener   WK   R H Catterall OFS 28 RHB    J A J Christy T 24 RHB   (RM)   E L Dalton N 22 RHB   H G Deane T 33 RHB   captain   Q McMillan T 24 RHB    LBG   B Mitchell T 20 RHB    LB   D P B Morkel WP 23 RHB    RFM   A L Ochse EP 29 RF   H G Owen-Smith WP 20 RHB   LB   N A Quinn Gq 21 LFM   I J Siedle N 26 RHB opener   H W Taylor T 40 RHB opener   vice-captain   E A van der Merwe T 24 reserve WK   C L Vincent T 27 SLA	Representation of teams:       EP – Eastern Province (1) Gq - Griqualand West (1) N – Natal (2) OFS – Orange Free State (1) T – Transvaal (8) WP - Western Province (3)         Average age of  team at time of first Test match (15 June 1929) :      25 yrs  11 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Taylor 29,  Caterall 15,  Deane 10,  Cameron 5,  Morkel 5,  Vincent 5,  Duminy 2,  Ochse 1,  Siedle 1,  Bell 0,  Christy 0,  Dalton 0,  McMillan 0,  Mitchell 0,  Owen-Smith 0,  Quinn 0,  van der Merwe 0.
	Team Officials	H O Frielinghaus Manager A S Frames Secretary W Ferguson Baggage/scorer   "Chappie" Frielinghaus (born 1888) was a businessman who became Member of Parliament for Port Elizabeth.
	Selectors	Lt-Col G A Morris (chairman),  F D Conry,  J H Tandy. The selection panel recommended its choice to a special meeting of the South African Cricket Association in Cape Town.
	Selection	Unavailable: Alan Melville (preparing for examinations),  G F Bissett (unable to attend the trials),  H L E Promnitz (unfit – he was suffering from a longstanding rib injury) The team was chosen after trials in Durban and Cape Town in December 1928.   Tour Party Announced: 4 January 1929. Not selected:  J P Duminy (T),  S L Steyn (WP).  Steyn was the official tour reserve. Bell’s selection was conditional upon the Board agreeing to a sixteenth player.  Taylor was appointed vice-captain on 7 January.  Only three of those who had toured in 1924 (Catterall, Deane and Taylor) were invited again.	Time between selection and departure from South Africa   86 days (4 January to 31 March)
	Travel	On 31 March 1929 the team sailed from Cape Town on the ‘Kenilworth Castle’.  They reached Funchal (Madeira) on 13 April, and Southampton on 15 April.  MCC representatives met the team at Waterloo Station, London.	Time spent in England    151 days (15 April - 13 September)
	On-tour selection panel	Deane (captain),  Taylor (vice-captain),  Catterall,  Frielinghaus (non-voting)
	Reinforcements	J P Duminy T 31 LHB   SLA   Jacobus Duminy was omitted from the tour party after the trials but joined the touring party for the third Test because he was available in Europe.  He was requested on 6 July and located four days later.  Cameron did not play at all after being knocked unconscious at Lord’s until the fourth Test. Siedle was unable to play in the first two Tests, and Jim Christy was out of action with a broken finger for about six weeks. Catterall appeared in all the tour matches until the end of June.
	Fixtures/Results	ϯ Godalming R F Earle’s XI Drawn ϯ Bearsted P F Warner’s XI Drawn Worcester Worcestershire Drawn Leicester Leicestershire Drawn Kennington Oval Surrey Lost 125 r Lord’s Middlesex Won 8 w Oxford Oxford University Won 4 w Pontypridd Glamorgan Won 170 r Bristol Gloucestershire Lost 6 w Sheffield Yorkshire Drawn Cambridge Cambridge University Won inns 119 r Lord’s M C C Drawn Derby Derbyshire Drawn Old Trafford Lancashire Lost 6 w Stoke-on-Trent Minor Counties Drawn EDGBASTON ENGLAND  First Test DRAWN Hull Yorkshire Drawn Kennington Oval Surrey Drawn ϯ Lakenham, Norwich Norfolk Won inns 44 r LORD’S ENGLAND  Second Test DRAWN Northampton Northamptonshire Drawn Trent Bridge Nottinghamshire Drawn Colwyn Bay Wales Won 10 r HEADINGLEY ENGLAND  Third Test LOST 5 w Liverpool Lancashire Lost 10 w North Inch, Perth Scotland Won inns 5 r ϯ Sunderland Durham Won inns 60 r OLD TRAFFORD ENGLAND  Fourth Test LOST inns 32 r Taunton Somerset Won inns 34 r Swansea Glamorgan Drawn Edgbaston Warwickshire Drawn Leyton Essex Won 327 r Southampton Hampshire Drawn KENNINGTON OVAL ENGLAND  Fifth Test DRAWN Canterbury Kent Drawn Hove Sussex Won 217 r ϯ West Bridgford Sir Julien Cahn’s XII Drawn Scarborough C I Thornton’s XI Drawn Folkestone An England XI Lost inns 16 r	ϯ not first-class   Time spent in  before First Test:  61 days (15 April - 15 June)
	Test appearances on tour	5  -  Catterall,  Deane,  Mitchell,  Morkel,  Owen-Smith 4  -  Cameron,  Quinn,  Vincent 3  -  Bell,  Siedle,  Taylor 2  -  Christy, McMillan, Ochse 1  -  Dalton,  Duminy,  van der Merwe.
	Highlights	•   Caterall and Mitchell made a century opening stand in each innings of the first Test at Edgbaston. •   Bell took six wickets for 99 runs in the 2nd Test at Lord’s; Quinn equalled this feat at Headingley with 6 for 92, but mostly the South Africans’ fast bowling was ineffective against English batsmen like Sutcliffe. •   Morkel proved himself a genuine all-rounder with 69 wickets and more than 1400 runs scored on tour. •   At Headingley Owen-Smith made a Test century (129) at the age of 20. He shared with Bell in a record partnership of 103 runs for the tenth wicket, made in 65 minutes. •   Herbie Taylor (121) scored his first Test century outside South Africa at The Oval, where South Africa after losing three wickets for 25 runs, reached 492 for 8 declared. Taylor and Deane added 214, a record stand. •   Towards the end of the tour Dalton scored 157 and 116 not out against Kent, followed by 102 and 44 not out against Sussex.
	Tour Summary	P  W L  D Aban Test Matches   5   0 2   3 - Other first-class matches 29   9 5 15 - ϯ  Minor matches   5   2 0   3 - All Matches 39 11 7 21 -
	Return to South Africa	The team sailed from Southampton on 13 September on the ‘Balmoral Castle’ and they arrived at no 7 Quay in Cape Town docks on 29 September. There was a welcome home dinner for the team at Kelvin Grove on 30 September.	Time away from South Africa    184 days   (31 March to 30 September)
	Finances	After all disbursements  the tour profit was only £40.
	Published accounts of the tour

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