799:, the expected opening partner for Bruce Mitchell, was badly out of form (and subsequently proved to have been ill for most of the season). The change proved successful in the first Test match, however: Melville scored a career-best 189 in the first innings and then, when the South Africans went in wanting 227 to win the match in 140 minutes, he hit an unbeaten 104 in the second innings, though the match remained drawn. Melville's performance set several records: this was the first time a South African batsman had scored two separate hundreds in a Test match; his first innings of 189 was at the time the highest by a South African against England, though Mitchell equalled it and was not out later in the same series; Melville's third-wicket partnership of 319 with vice-captain
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the fifth match was due to be played to a finish, South Africa attempted to win through sheer weight of runs: the first innings lasted two-and-a-half days and totalled 530. Van der Bijl and
Melville improved on their first-wicket stand in the first innings, scoring 131 before Melville was out for 78. After bowling England out for 316, Melville did not enforce the follow-on and the South Africans in their second innings scored 481; Melville himself had an injured thigh and this time came in at No 6 but scored 103, his first Test century. Despite the heavy scoring the match was left drawn after the 10th day when the England team, having scored 654 for five wickets in pursuit of a victory target of 696, were forced to leave the match as a draw to catch their ship home.
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runs at an average of 40.51. His side had a mixed season, falling to seventh in the County
Championship. At the end of the 1935 season, Melville resigned the Sussex captaincy; he played only irregularly for Sussex in the 1936 season though he finished with a flourish, scoring 152, his highest first-class score to that point, in his last game for the county, the match against the
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599:, playing in 11 matches and scoring consistent runs, if with no high scores. Unusually, though no longer captain, he returned to Oxford in 1933 for a fourth season and a fourth Blue and although he featured in fewer than half the University side's matches, he hit his highest Oxford score, an innings of 127 made in less than two-and-a-quarter hours against a very weak
670:, the senior professional at the club, who captained the side when Melville missed a few games. As a batsman, Melville was highly successful, scoring 1504 runs at an average of 42.97 with three centuries, though in the heady world of Sussex batting at the time that still left him only fifth in the county's batting averages, behind
666:. "Sussex, renowned for their attractive and enterprising hitting, developed a somewhat stodgy game in their efforts to finish at the top and they thus defeated their own ends," it said. "At times they would not risk anything." Wisden compared Melville's "strange disinclination to experiment" with the adventurous approach taken by
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called "extreme heat", ended in a tense draw with the South
Africans, seeking 451 for what would have been a record-breaking win, finishing at 423 for seven wickets: Melville dropped down the batting order in this game and scored 39 and 6. In the five Tests, Melville had scored 569 runs at an average
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matches that season. The following year, however, he captained
Transvaal in six of its seven Currie Cup matches as the team shared the title with Natal; he had little success with the bat himself, scoring just 109 runs at an average of 15.57 and did not bowl at all. In fact, after his return to South
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was a record in all Test cricket for that wicket, though beaten by
Compton and Edrich for England later in the series, and South Africa's highest for any wicket; the South African total of 533 was the highest against England; and Melville's two centuries meant he had scored three Test centuries in
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reported. That led him to open the South
African innings in the fourth Test and he and van der Bijl – his collision partner from Oxford in 1932 – put on an opening partnership of 108 before Melville was out for 67. Rain had spoiled the possibility of a South African victory in the fourth game, but
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Melville, against his old colleagues at Sussex, with an unbeaten 114 in a total of 555 for six wickets. On the tour as a whole, he scored 1547 runs at an average of 40.71. Though the tour was not successful in terms of the Tests, Melville won
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The match at Lord's set the pattern for the rest of the tour as South Africa's limited bowling and inconsistent batting were exposed by
England's weight of runs from Compton and Edrich and the home side's greater bowling variety and experience. Melville made 17 and 59 in the third Test, played at
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Championship batting averages and scoring in all matches a total of 1904
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toured South Africa. Melville, nominally retired, was persuaded to play in an early-season first class match for
Transvaal against Natal after which, in the last of a long line of injuries, he fractured a wrist; he recovered in time to play for Transvaal in the game against the touring side just
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in an innings of 390. For the second match, he demoted himself from No 3 in the batting order to No 9 and scored 23 in his only innings. For the third match, he went in at No 8 and scored 5 not out and 10. Respite for Melville from this series of mediocre personal performances with a match for a
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Combined Transvaal XI against the MCC touring team immediately after the third Test defeat. Though he scored only 1 in the first innings, he resorted to opening the batting in the second innings and scored 107 "cutting, driving and hooking with effortless ease",
571:, Oxford achieved the first victory over Cambridge since 1923. In 1932, Melville was the Oxford captain in his own right, but his season was disrupted by injury – though not to the same degree as Moore's had been in 1931 – when he broke his
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and nine wickets in the game against H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI, and he finished top of the University bowling averages. In the University Match, Melville was unable to repeat his leadership success of 1931, and the match was drawn.
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658:, had stood down because of the death of his father; Scott was unable to resume in 1934, and Melville took over the Sussex captaincy for the next two seasons. Sussex had finished second in the
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for each of the preceding two seasons and under Melville in 1934 they again finished second, but there was veiled criticism of changes to the county's style of play in the 1935 edition of
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of 63.22; this put him third in the batting averages behind Nourse and Mitchell, but the three of them all scored more than double the number of runs of any other South African batsman.
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1148:"Scorecard: H>D>G> Leveson Gower's XI v Oxford University"
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Africa from England in 1936 he scarcely bowled at all.
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1126:"Scorecard: Oxford University v Free Foresters"
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951:"Wisden Cricketers of the Year: Alan Melville"
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1545:"Scorecard: Leicestershire v South Africans"
583:. Melville had made an unbeaten century, 113
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1481:. www.cricketarchive.com. 18 February 1939
1394:. www.cricketarchive.com. 31 December 1938
1372:. www.cricketarchive.com. 24 December 1938
1329:. www.cricketarchive.com. 16 December 1936
1039:"Scorecard: Oxford University v Yorkshire"
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1832:"M.C.C. Team in South Africa, 1948–49".
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1523:"Scorecard: Griqualand West v Transvaal"
1457:"Scorecard: Combined Transvaal XI v MCC"
1435:"M.C.C. Tour in South Africa, 1938–39".
1348:"M.C.C. Tour in South Africa, 1938–39".
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1289:. Vol. Part II (1936 ed.).
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1110:. Vol. Part II (1933 ed.).
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1567:"Scorecard: Surrey v South Africans"
1547:. www.cricketarchive.com. 3 May 1947
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2195:de Villiers
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872:George Mann
818:West Indies
797:Dennis Dyer
785:Bill Edrich
684:Harry Parks
644:Don Bradman
561:Denis Moore
540:each year.
514:Jack Siedle
457:25 May 2013
307:Runs scored
290:First-class
281:Competition
133:All-rounder
73:19 May 1910
2253:Categories
2201:du Plessis
1916:1934–1935
953:. Cricinfo
914:17 January
894:References
830:Manchester
704:Currie Cup
672:Tommy Cook
629:leg theory
613:Ted Bowley
603:attack at
573:collarbone
69:1910-05-19
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549:Yorkshire
506:Transvaal
486:Transvaal
470:cricketer
430:stumpings
342:Top score
262:Transvaal
248:1932–1936
238:1930–1933
198:Last Test
148:(brother)
139:Relations
77:Carnarvon
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2075:Melville
2031:Mitchell
2019:Sherwell
2013:Anderson
1994:Richards
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1220:17 April
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1154:16 April
1132:16 April
851:Almanack
605:The Oval
555:against
451:Source:
428:Catches/
331:100s/50s
154:(nephew)
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2155:2002/03
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2037:Tancred
2007:Taberer
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1067:2 April
1045:2 April
1023:2 April
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692:Indians
368:Wickets
296:Matches
203:England
192:England
112:Bowling
104:Batting
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2179:Prince
2177:2006:
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2135:Cronje
2120:Bacher
2096:McGlew
2081:Nourse
2043:Taylor
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1975:Dunell
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855:Wisden
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732:Wisden
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601:Surrey
597:Sussex
356:bowled
313:10,598
252:Sussex
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2165:Smith
2056:Nupen
2049:Deane
1333:7 May
1311:7 May
834:Leeds
727:ducks
502:Natal
482:Sabie
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362:6,927
354:Balls
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326:37.85
323:52.58
232:Natal
218:Years
96:Sabie
2206:2017
2185:Amla
2069:Wade
1884:2013
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