England in South Africa Test Series - 1st Test
England won by an innings and 104 runs
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Boycott | lbw b Partridge | 73 | 268 | 284 | 2 | 0 | 25.70 | |
| RW Barber | b Goddard | 74 | 166 | 3 | 1 | |||
| ER Dexter | c & b Seymour | 28 | 63 | 3 | 0 | |||
| KF Barrington | not out | 148 | 432 | 9 | 0 | |||
| PH Parfitt | c Goddard b Partridge | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MJK Smith* | c †Lindsay b Partridge | 35 | 142 | 2 | 0 | |||
| JM Parks† | not out | 108 | 247 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 2, lb 1, nb 16) | 19 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets dec; 190 overs) | 485 | (2.55 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat FJ Titmus, DA Allen, NI Thomson, JSE Price |
| Fall of wickets1-120 (Barber), 2-169 (Dexter), 3-205 (Boycott), 4-206 (Parfitt), 5-279 (Smith) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PM Pollock | 33 | 11 | 80 | 0 | 2.42 | |||
| JT Partridge | 45 | 14 | 85 | 3 | 1.88 | |||
| EJ Barlow | 20 | 5 | 36 | 0 | 1.80 | |||
| MA Seymour | 46 | 4 | 144 | 1 | 3.13 | |||
| TL Goddard | 32 | 8 | 79 | 1 | 2.46 | |||
| RG Pollock | 10 | 1 | 32 | 0 | 3.20 | |||
| KC Bland | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2.50 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| TL Goddard* | c Smith b Price | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | ||
| EJ Barlow | b Thomson | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||
| AJ Pithey | b Allen | 15 | 110 | 0 | 0 | ||
| RG Pollock | b Titmus | 5 | 28 | 1 | 0 | ||
| KC Bland | c Barber b Allen | 26 | 59 | 1 | 0 | ||
| DT Lindsay† | c Price b Barber | 38 | 60 | 6 | 0 | ||
| RA McLean | c Smith b Allen | 30 | 62 | 1 | 1 | ||
| GD Varnals | b Allen | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
| MA Seymour | not out | 15 | 39 | 1 | 0 | ||
| PM Pollock | c Dexter b Barber | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||
| JT Partridge | b Allen | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 4) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 74.5 overs) | 155 | (2.07 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-10 (Goddard), 2-10 (Barlow), 3-19 (RG Pollock), 4-54 (Bland), 5-67 (Pithey), 6-120 (Lindsay), 7-130 (Varnals), 8-131 (McLean), 9-142 (PM Pollock), 10-155 (Partridge) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JSE Price | 6 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 3.16 | |||
| NI Thomson | 15 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 1.53 | |||
| FJ Titmus | 20 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 1.00 | |||
| DA Allen | 19.5 | 5 | 41 | 5 | 2.06 | |||
| RW Barber | 14 | 1 | 48 | 2 | 3.42 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (following on) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| TL Goddard* | c Thomson b Titmus | 15 | 76 | 2 | 0 | |||
| EJ Barlow | c Barrington b Price | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| AJ Pithey | c Dexter b Allen | 43 | 179 | 5 | 1 | |||
| RG Pollock | c Smith b Titmus | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KC Bland | c Barber b Titmus | 68 | 139 | 4 | 3 | |||
| DT Lindsay† | c Dexter b Titmus | 10 | 36 | 0 | 0 | |||
| RA McLean | c Smith b Allen | 9 | 28 | 0 | 0 | |||
| GD Varnals | c †Parks b Thomson | 11 | 61 | 1 | 0 | |||
| MA Seymour | b Titmus | 36 | 90 | 3 | 0 | |||
| PM Pollock | not out | 18 | 58 | 2 | 0 | |||
| JT Partridge | run out | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 9, lb 6) | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 122.5 overs) | 226 | (1.83 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Barlow), 2-28 (Goddard), 3-28 (RG Pollock), 4-123 (Pithey), 5-142 (Bland), 6-145 (Lindsay), 7-157 (McLean), 8-178 (Varnals), 9-225 (Seymour), 10-226 (Partridge) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| NI Thomson | 13 | 6 | 25 | 1 | 1.92 | |||
| JSE Price | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0.77 | |||
| FJ Titmus | 45.5 | 19 | 66 | 5 | 1.44 | |||
| DA Allen | 47 | 15 | 99 | 2 | 2.10 | |||
| RW Barber | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1.33 | |||
| PH Parfitt | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series England led the 5-match series 1-0 |
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Test debuts
NI Thomson
(England);
GD Varnals
(South Africa) |
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Umpires
JG Draper and HC Kidson |
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Close of play 4 Dec day 1 - England 1st innings 260/4 (KF Barrington 48*, MJK Smith 27*) 5 Dec day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 20/3 (AJ Pithey 5*, KC Bland 0*) 6 Dec rest day 7 Dec day 3 - South Africa 2nd innings 122/3 (AJ Pithey 42*, KC Bland 58*) 8 Dec day 4 - South Africa 2nd innings 226 (122.5 ov) - end of match |
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