488:. 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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366:, 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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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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912:"Scorecard: JMM Comaille's XI v NV Lindsay's XI"
890:"Scorecard: Griqualand West v Western Province"
342:. A few days later he scored 34 and 65 against
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1001:. www.cricketarchive.com. 12 July 1924
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868:"Scorecard: Western Province v Border"
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553:"Scorecard: Western Province v Border"
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757:. Melbourne. 1 April 1911. p. 7
407:Football Association of South Africa
1152:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
1130:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
999:"Scorecard: England v South Africa"
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955:"Scorecard: England v South Africa"
799:"Scorecard: Western Province v MCC"
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663:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
641:"Scorecard: South Africa v England"
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597:"Scorecard: Western Province v MCC"
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495:References
336:Currie Cup
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384:The Argus
344:Transvaal
305:cricketer
297:Sea Point
289:Cape Town
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