CRICKET IN AFRICA
TEST CAPTAIN ANNOUNCED
(Received December 6, 10j45 a.m.)
DURBAN, December 5,
In their match with the M.C.C. Natal in their first innings made 307 (Harvey 92, Wade 56, Dalton 47; Edrich took two wickets for 42 runs, Verity three for 49, Wright three for 81, and Wilkinson two for 57). . M.C.C. in
their first innings had made 105 at stumps without the loss of a wicket (Hutton 65 not out, Edrich 39 not out).
Alan Melville is to captain South Africa in the five "Tests against England. He captained Oxford University in 1931 and 1932 and has played with some success for Sussex.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 11
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