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XI and Coen filled the vacancy, scoring just three in his only innings. The first Test was not a success for South Africa, which lost the match by 10 wickets, but although he sustained an ankle injury in the game, Coen's reputation was not much damaged. In the first innings, batting at No 7, he made only seven, and he was able to bowl only two overs, not taking any wickets. But in South Africa's second innings, he batted at No 10 because of his injury; he came in to bat with the score at 78 for eight, still 39 runs short of avoiding an innings defeat, and he and
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and scored 28 in the first innings and an unbeaten 25 in the second when South Africa, set just 69, won the game by eight wickets. With two not-outs in his four Test innings, Coen topped the South
African batting averages for the series, and his average of 50.50 was higher than his highest score,
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African domestic cricket from 1921–22 to 1938–39, but made a particular impact in only two seasons. Across the 1920s, Coen's first-class cricket was for
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At the end of the 1931–32 season, Coen transferred to
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