477:. Commaille, just a few months short of his 44th birthday, made 77 and 54 in the first-class match between Orange Free State and the English team (playing as MCC). He followed that with a century in a non-competitive two-day first-class game against Natal and was then picked for the first two Tests of the five-match series. In the first match, he scored 23 and 4 in a game of many low scores – only 12 out of 35 individual innings reached double figures. In the second game, he followed a first innings of 13 with a score of 47 in the second innings, his best in Tests, and he shared an opening partnership of 115 with Herbie Taylor which constituted more than half the South African total of 224. With the South Africans losing both the first two Tests, however, he was dropped from the team for the subsequent matches in which a series draw was obtained, and he did not play Test cricket again.
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Commaille, batting at No 5, was the not-out batsman, though he made only one run; in the second innings, he resumed his more normal position as an opener and made 29 out of 101 runs added while he was at the wicket, as the South Africans totalled 390, still losing the match by an innings. The second Test had a similar result, but more even batting by the South Africans; Commaille was out without scoring in the first innings but made 37, his best of the series, in the second. Commaille's personal pattern for the series was maintained in the third Test, with just four runs in the first innings and 31 in the second. Rain ruined the final two Tests, but Commaille was not successful in either of his two single innings in these matches: he failed to reach double figures in the first innings in all five Tests. In the five Tests, he scored 113 runs at an average of 16.14.
355:, who made 123. Commaille's adhesive powers were demonstrated again in the second Test. Having failed with a score of just 3 in the first innings when batting at No 9, he was promoted to No 6 in the second innings and scored 30 out of 103 made while he was at the wicket as South Africa amassed a match-winning total after a tie on first innings. There was further promotion up the batting order in the third Test: he scored 39 batting at No 6 in the first innings and then just 2 batting at No 3 in the second. Finally in the fourth Test he was tried as an opening batsman alongside
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African first innings; he scored just three in the second innings. He was not successful in the final Test, scoring just four and five as England won easily. In the five Tests, Commaille scored 155 runs at an
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Africans were sensationally dismissed in the first innings for just
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in 1919–20, and when proper domestic competition returned in 1920–21 he was immediately far more successful than he had been in any season pre-War. In the first
Western Province game of the season against a very weak Border team he made 156, more than the opposing team made in their two innings
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Commonwealth series of internationals between England, South Africa and Australia was proposed (and rejected). As a player, he represented South Africa at either outside- or inside-right.
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Western Province to Orange Free State and two years later in 1926–27 he made the highest score of his long career, an innings of 186 against
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team for the first Test, batting down the order at No 8 in the first innings and No 9 in the second; he scored just 8 in the first innings but in the second he made 19 and put on 74 for the eighth wicket with
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African Association football as both a player and an administrator; in 1913, he was the honorary secretary of the
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Commaille continued in first-class cricket for a further three seasons, switching teams to
Griqualand West in 1929–30 and finally retiring after a single game in 1930–31.
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in which he shared a second-wicket partnership of 305 with
382:. In 1913–14, there was another tour of South Africa by
520:"Scorecard: Western Province v Marylebone Cricket Club"
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toured South Africa, playing its non-Test matches as
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1053:"Scorecard: Eastern Province v Orange Free State"
766:"Scorecard: Western Province v Orange Free State"
901:"Scorecard: JMM Comaille's XI v NV Lindsay's XI"
879:"Scorecard: Griqualand West v Western Province"
331:. A few days later he scored 34 and 65 against
327:competition, scoring 74 in the match against
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564:"Scorecard: Western Province v Transvaal"
522:. www.cricketarchive.com. 5 December 1905
881:. www.cricketarchive.com. 7 January 1921
768:. www.cricketarchive.com. 1 January 1913
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1097:"Scorecard: Orange Free State v Natal"
1031:"Scorecard: Orange Free State v Natal"
990:. www.cricketarchive.com. 12 July 1924
968:. www.cricketarchive.com. 28 June 1924
946:. www.cricketarchive.com. 14 June 1924
857:"Scorecard: Western Province v Border"
816:. Sydney. 3 September 1913. p. 14
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676:. www.cricketarchive.com. 7 March 1910
542:"Scorecard: Western Province v Border"
1015:. Vol. Part II (1925 ed.).
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746:. Melbourne. 1 April 1911. p. 7
396:Football Association of South Africa
1141:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
1119:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
988:"Scorecard: England v South Africa"
966:"Scorecard: England v South Africa"
944:"Scorecard: England v South Africa"
788:"Scorecard: Western Province v MCC"
696:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
674:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
652:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
630:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
608:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
586:"Scorecard: Western Province v MCC"
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922:"South Africans in England".
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32:Mick Commaille in 1924
1189:Free State cricketers
814:Sydney Morning Herald
266:John McIllwaine Moore
426:1924 tour to England
414:Australia in 1921–22
198:5 wickets in innings
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357:Billy Zulch
111:Runs scored
94:First-class
85:Competition
1163:Categories
504:12 January
484:References
325:Currie Cup
744:The Argus
373:The Argus
333:Transvaal
294:cricketer
286:Sea Point
278:Cape Town
274:Commaille
234:stumpings
146:Top score
441:Scotland
257:Cricinfo
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232:Catches/
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329:Border
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