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Played at
Newlands, Cape Town, on 25,26 March 1889 (3-day match)
Result England won by an innings and 202 runs
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Balls per over 4
Toss England, who chose to bat first
Series England won the 2-match series 2-0
Test debuts
JEP McMaster
(England);
WH Ashley,
WHM Richards and
NHCD Theunissen
(South Africa)
Umpires
JAE Hickson (England) and RG Warton (England)
Close of play
25 Mar day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 2/1 (AB Tancred 1*)
26 Mar day 2 - South Africa 2nd innings 43 (28.2 ov) - end of match
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Match notes |
- Abel scored the first hundred in first-class cricket in South Africa and Tancred became the first batsman to carry his bat through a completed Test innings.
- Briggs set a new Test record by taking 8 for 11 (all bowled) in the second innings and 15 for 28 in the match.
- Ashley took 7 for 95 in his only Test
- Bowden, aged 23 years 144 days became England's youngest captain three years before dying in Umtali Hospital- a glorified mud hut where his body had to be protected from marauding lions prior to being interred in a coffin made from whiskey cases.
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