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After the tour, Simkins, the manager, declared that "from a cricket point of view" the tour was "a far greater success than the most sanguine of our team and supporters anticipated". However, financially it was "as complete a failure as it could be", and the tour's guarantors lost all their
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after weather had disrupted the early weeks of the tour. Rain prevented play on the first day of the two-day match, but on the second day 40 wickets fell, and the South Africans (126 and 60) defeated MCC (103 and 72) by 11 runs. Middleton took six wickets in each innings.
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in 1892; Glover, Halliwell, Hearne, Johnson, Middleton, Routledge, Rowe and Seccull played Tests later in the 1890s. Only four – Castens, Davey, Kempis and Sewell – did not play Test cricket.
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in 1888-89 and for South Africa from 1891 to 1896. Six of the team – Cripps, Halliwell, Hearne, Mills, Parkin and Routledge – had played in South Africa's most recent
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at home and many of the matches on tour were against first-class county clubs. The South Africans won 12 matches, drew 7 and lost 5.
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Sewell was the leading scorer, with 1038 runs at an average of 30.52. He decided to stay in England and play for
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standing, although South Africa had already begun playing matches subsequently recognised as
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International cricket competitions from 1888–89 to 1918
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The South African team that toured England in 1894.
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Index

South African
1894 season
first-class
Test matches

H. H. Castens
Godfrey Cripps
Darnton Davey
George Glover
Ernest Halliwell
Frank Hearne
Clement Johnson
George Kempis
Bonnor Middleton
Charles Mills
Dante Parkin
Thomas Routledge
George Rowe
Arthur Seccull
Cyril Sewell
Cape Town
Bernard Tancred
Alfred Richards
Voltelin van der Bijl
Frank Hearne
England
Test
MCC
Lord's
Gloucestershire

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