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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 18th, 19th, 21st December 1931 (timeless match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Africa won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by an innings and 155 runs |
| Umpires | GE Borwick, GA Hele |
| Close of play day 1 | Australia (1) 78/1 (Woodfull 36*, Rigg 35*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 444/7 (Oldfield 4*) |
| South Africa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JAJ Christy | c Nitschke b Grimmett | 14 | 44 | 1 | - | ||
| B Mitchell | b McCabe | 1 | 10 | - | - | ||
| DPB Morkel | st Oldfield b Grimmett | 20 | 41 | 3 | - | ||
| *+HB Cameron | b Wall | 11 | 40 | 2 | - | ||
| HW Taylor | c Lee b Grimmett | 7 | 20 | - | - | ||
| KG Viljoen | b Ironmonger | 37 | 90 | 3 | - | ||
| EL Dalton | b Grimmett | 21 | 29 | 1 | - | ||
| CL Vincent | not out | 31 | 84 | 5 | - | ||
| LS Brown | b McCabe | 2 | 10 | - | - | ||
| NA Quinn | lbw b McCabe | 5 | 18 | - | - | ||
| AJ Bell | b McCabe | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 73 overs) | 153 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Mitchell), 2-31 (Christy), 3-36 (Morkel), 4-54 (Taylor), 5-62 (Cameron), 6-91 (Dalton), 7-136 (Viljoen), 8-143 (Brown), 9-153 (Quinn), 10-153 (Bell, 73 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wall | 18 | 4 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| McCabe | 12 | 5 | 13 | 4 | - | - | |
| Grimmett | 24 | 12 | 28 | 4 | - | - | |
| Ironmonger | 12 | 1 | 38 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lee | 7 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WM Woodfull | c Mitchell b Vincent | 58 | 152 | 5 | - | ||
| WH Ponsford | b Quinn | 5 | 7 | - | - | ||
| KE Rigg | b Bell | 127 | 240 | 12 | - | ||
| DG Bradman | c Viljoen b Morkel | 112 | 155 | 10 | - | ||
| SJ McCabe | c Christy b Vincent | 79 | 122 | 7 | - | ||
| HC Nitschke | b Bell | 47 | 73 | 3 | - | ||
| PK Lee | c Cameron b Brown | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| +WAS Oldfield | c Cameron b Bell | 8 | 21 | - | - | ||
| CV Grimmett | not out | 9 | 31 | 1 | - | ||
| TW Wall | c Morkel b Bell | 6 | 13 | 1 | - | ||
| H Ironmonger | c Cameron b Bell | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (5 b, 12 lb, 1 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 154.5 overs) | 469 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Ponsford), 2-143 (Woodfull), 3-254 (Rigg), 4-347 (Bradman), 5-432 (McCabe), 6-433 (Lee), 7-444 (Nitschke), 8-457 (Oldfield), 9-469 (Wall), 10-469 (Ironmonger, 154.5 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Bell | 46.5 | 6 | 140 | 5 | - | - | |
| Quinn | 42 | 10 | 95 | 1 | - | - | |
| Brown | 29 | 3 | 100 | 1 | - | - | |
| Vincent | 24 | 5 | 75 | 2 | - | - | |
| Morkel | 12 | 2 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Africa second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JAJ Christy | c Woodfull b Ironmonger | 41 | 32 | 7 | - | ||
| B Mitchell | c Oldfield b Wall | 24 | 67 | 1 | - | ||
| DPB Morkel | lbw b Grimmett | 17 | 55 | 1 | - | ||
| *+HB Cameron | b Wall | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| HW Taylor | c Grimmett b Ironmonger | 6 | 22 | - | - | ||
| KG Viljoen | b Grimmett | 0 | 10 | - | - | ||
| EL Dalton | c Bradman b Ironmonger | 14 | 38 | 1 | - | ||
| CL Vincent | c Ponsford b Grimmett | 35 | 95 | 3 | - | ||
| LS Brown | c Wall b Lee | 8 | 36 | - | - | ||
| NA Quinn | st Oldfield b Grimmett | 1 | 32 | - | - | ||
| AJ Bell | not out | 1 | 5 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (5 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 73.3 overs) | 161 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-70 (Christy), 2-89 (Mitchell), 3-89 (Cameron), 4-100 (Morkel), 5-100 (Taylor), 6-100 (Viljoen), 7-122 (Dalton), 8-144 (Brown), 9-160 (Vincent), 10-161 (Quinn, 73.3 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wall | 18 | 5 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| McCabe | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Grimmett | 20.3 | 7 | 44 | 4 | - | - | |
| Ironmonger | 19 | 10 | 22 | 3 | - | - | |
| Lee | 13 | 4 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
Notes
--> LS Brown made his debut in Test matches
--> PK Lee made his debut in Test matches
--> HC Nitschke made his last appearance in Test matches
--> WM Woodfull (1) 50 in 163 balls, 140 minutes with 3 fours
--> WM Woodfull (1) passed 10000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 22
--> KE Rigg (1) passed his previous highest score of 16 in Test matches
--> KE Rigg (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> KE Rigg (1) 50 in 141 balls, 104 minutes with 5 fours
--> KE Rigg (1) 100 in 257 balls, 192 minutes with 9 fours
--> KE Rigg (1) passed his previous highest score of 126 in First-Class matches
--> KE Rigg (1) passed 1500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 55
--> DG Bradman (1) 50 in 85 balls, 85 minutes with 3 fours
--> DG Bradman (1) 100 in 156 balls, 147 minutes with 8 fours
--> SJ McCabe (1) 50 in 81 balls, 75 minutes with 5 fours
--> SJ McCabe (1) passed 500 runs in Test matches when he reached 67
--> LS Brown made his debut for South Africa in First-Class matches
--> PK Lee made his debut for Australia in First-Class matches
--> KG Viljoen made his debut in Australia in Test matches
--> SJ McCabe achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test matches in the South Africa first innings (previous best was 4-41)
--> AJ Bell reached 150 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed TW Wall, his 4th wicket in the Australia first innings
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