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2nd Test-South Africa in Australia Test Series 1931

RESULTTESTSydney Cricket GroundFri, 18 Dec - Mon, 21 Dec 1931

AUS

Australia

469/10 (154.5)

South Africa

153/10 (73) & 161/10 (73.3)

Australia won by an innings and 155 runs

AUSAustralia innings

469/10 (154.5)

BATTING

Batsman	R	B	M	4s	6s	SR	In Season	R	4s	6s	Career	R	4s	6s
Jim Christy c Nitschke b Grimmett	14	0	44	1	0	0.00	In 1931	94	11	1	Career	259	14	2
Bruce Mitchell b McCabe	1	0	10	0	0	0.00	In 1931	83	7	0	Career	789	31	0
Denys Morkel st (wk)Oldfield b Grimmett	20	0	41	3	0	0.00	In 1931	45	4	0	Career	559	4	0
Jock Cameron(c)(WK) b Wall	11	0	40	2	0	0.00	In 1931	36	2	1	Career	701	11	5
Herbie Taylor c Lee b Grimmett	7	0	20	0	0	0.00	In 1931	101	12	0	Career	2520	69	5
Ken Viljoen b Ironmonger	37	0	90	3	0	0.00	In 1931	37	3	0	Career	183	11	0
Eric Dalton b Grimmett	21	0	29	1	0	0.00	In 1931	52	3	0	Career	101	6	0
Cyril Vincent not out	31	0	84	5	0	0.00	In 1931	77	8	0	Career	359	9	6
Lennox Brown b McCabe	2	0	10	0	0	0.00	In 1931	10	0	0	Career	10	0	0
Neville Quinn lbw b McCabe	5	0	18	0	0	0.00	In 1931	7	0	0	Career	56	0	1
Sandy Bell b McCabe	0	0	3	0	0	0.00	In 1931	2	0	0	Career	43	0	0
Extras (lb 3, w 1)	4
Total 153 73 Ov (RR: 2.09)	153	0		15	0

BOWLING

Bowler	O	M	R	W	ECO	In Season	W	Best	Career	W
Tim Wall	18.00	4	46	1	2.55	In 1931	10	5/39	Career	31
Stan McCabe	12.00	5	13	4	1.08	In 1931	4	4/13	Career	13
Clarrie Grimmett	24.00	12	28	4	1.16	In 1931	11	7/87	Career	96
Bert Ironmonger	12.00	1	38	1	3.16	In 1931	13	7/23	Career	30
Perker Lee	7.00	1	24	0	3.42	In 1931	1	1/24	Career	1

SASouth Africa innings

153/10 (73)

BATTING

Batsman	R	B	M	4s	6s	SR	In Season	R	4s	6s	Career	R	4s	6s
Bill Woodfull(c) c Mitchell b Vincent	58	0	152	5	0	0.00	In 1931	134	13	0	Career	1480	82	0
Bill Ponsford b Quinn	5	0	7	0	0	0.00	In 1931	24	3	0	Career	1339	92	0
Keith Rigg b Bell	127	0	240	12	0	0.00	In 1931	127	12	0	Career	157	14	0
Donald Bradman c Viljoen b Morkel	112	0	155	10	0	0.00	In 1931	338	32	0	Career	2227	210	0
Stan McCabe c Christy b Vincent	79	0	122	7	0	0.00	In 1931	106	9	0	Career	512	53	0
Jack Nitschke b Bell	47	0	73	3	0	0.00	In 1931	53	3	0	Career	53	3	0
Perker Lee c (wk)Cameron b Brown	0	0	2	0	0	0.00	In 1931	0	0	0	Career	0	0	0
Bert Oldfield(WK) c (wk)Cameron b Bell	8	0	21	0	0	0.00	In 1931	64	5	1	Career	949	60	1
Clarrie Grimmett not out	9	0	31	1	0	0.00	In 1931	23	1	0	Career	303	12	2
Tim Wall c Morkel b Bell	6	0	13	1	0	0.00	In 1931	20	1	0	Career	41	3	1
Bert Ironmonger c (wk)Cameron b Bell	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	In 1931	2	0	0	Career	17	0	0
Extras (b 5, lb 12, w 1)	18
Total 469 154.5 Ov (RR: 3.02)	469	0		39	0

BOWLING

Bowler	O	M	R	W	ECO	In Season	W	Best	Career	W
Sandy Bell	46.50	6	140	5	2.98	In 1931	9	6/99	Career	20
Neville Quinn	42.00	10	95	1	2.26	In 1931	3	6/92	Career	16
Lennox Brown	29.00	3	100	1	3.44	In 1931	1	1/100	Career	1
Cyril Vincent	24.00	5	75	2	3.12	In 1931	5	6/131	Career	54
Denys Morkel	12.00	2	33	1	2.75	In 1931	2	4/93	Career	18
Bruce Mitchell	1.00	0	8	0	8.00	In 1931	0	1/45	Career	2

AUSAustralia innings

BATTING

Batsman	R	B	M	4s	6s	SR	In Season	R	4s	6s	Career	R	4s	6s
Jim Christy c Woodfull b Ironmonger	41	0	32	7	0	0.00	In 1931	94	11	1	Career	259	14	2
Bruce Mitchell c (wk)Oldfield b Wall	24	0	67	1	0	0.00	In 1931	83	7	0	Career	789	31	0
Denys Morkel lbw b Grimmett	17	0	55	1	0	0.00	In 1931	45	4	0	Career	559	4	0
Jock Cameron(c)(WK) b Wall	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	In 1931	36	2	1	Career	701	11	5
Herbie Taylor c Grimmett b Ironmonger	6	0	22	0	0	0.00	In 1931	101	12	0	Career	2520	69	5
Ken Viljoen b Grimmett	0	0	10	0	0	0.00	In 1931	37	3	0	Career	183	11	0
Eric Dalton c Bradman b Ironmonger	14	0	38	1	0	0.00	In 1931	52	3	0	Career	101	6	0
Cyril Vincent c Ponsford b Grimmett	35	0	95	3	0	0.00	In 1931	77	8	0	Career	359	9	6
Lennox Brown c Wall b Lee	8	0	36	0	0	0.00	In 1931	10	0	0	Career	10	0	0
Neville Quinn st (wk)Oldfield b Grimmett	1	0	32	0	0	0.00	In 1931	7	0	0	Career	56	0	1
Sandy Bell not out	1	0	5	0	0	0.00	In 1931	2	0	0	Career	43	0	0
Extras (b 5, lb 8, nb 1)	14
Total 161 73.3 Ov (RR: 2.19)	161	0		13	0