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| Venue | New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg on 30th November, 1st, 3rd, 4th December 1956 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Transvaal won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Marylebone Cricket Club won by 3 wickets |
| Umpires | A Birkett, JH McMenamin |
| Close of play day 1 | Transvaal (1) 163/5 (Endean 56*, Ritchie 2*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 149/3 (Cowdrey 41*, Compton 45*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Transvaal (2) 43/2 (Tayfield 31*, Funston 9*) |
| Transvaal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *AI Taylor | b Laker | 37 | 99 | 3 | - | ||
| A Tayfield | b Bailey | 8 | 64 | 1 | - | ||
| WR Endean | not out | 81 | 320 | 6 | - | ||
| KJ Funston | c Evans b Statham | 13 | 35 | 1 | - | ||
| +JHB Waite | c Wardle b Laker | 15 | 54 | 2 | - | ||
| SR Kimber | c and b Wardle | 23 | 78 | - | - | ||
| GG Ritchie | b Statham | 2 | 24 | - | - | ||
| M Charnas | b Statham | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | |
| PS Heine | b Statham | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| KL Gibbs | c Evans b Tyson | 13 | 71 | 1 | - | ||
| NAT Adcock | run out | 6 | 11 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (6 b, 5 lb, 3 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 385 minutes, 79.3 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-38 (Tayfield), 2-57 (Taylor), 3-76 (Funston), 4-105 (Waite), 5-150 (Kimber), 6-163 (Ritchie), 7-163 (Charnas), 8-163 (Heine), 9-204 (Gibbs), 10-212 (Adcock, 79.3 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Statham | 18 | 3 | 38 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Tyson | 15.3 | 3 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bailey | 15 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Laker | 19 | 3 | 41 | 2 | - | - | |
| Wardle | 12 | 3 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PE Richardson | b Gibbs | 39 | 105 | 3 | - | ||
| MC Cowdrey | lbw b Gibbs | 84 | 365 | 6 | - | ||
| ASM Oakman | c Charnas b Heine | 16 | 36 | 2 | - | ||
| *PBH May | c Waite b Heine | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| DCS Compton | b Heine | 72 | 166 | 7 | - | ||
| TE Bailey | b Adcock | 11 | 51 | 1 | - | ||
| +TG Evans | c Waite b Heine | 25 | 44 | 3 | - | ||
| FH Tyson | b Gibbs | 10 | 30 | 1 | - | ||
| JH Wardle | c Taylor b Heine | 5 | 15 | 1 | - | ||
| JC Laker | b Gibbs | 4 | 25 | - | - | ||
| JB Statham | not out | 2 | 14 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (5 b, 4 lb, 2 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 437 minutes, 80.5 overs) | 279 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-63 (Richardson), 2-95 (Oakman), 3-95 (May), 4-207 (Compton), 5-229 (Cowdrey), 6-233 (Bailey), 7-262 (Tyson), 8-268 (Evans), 9-275 (Wardle), 10-279 (Laker, 80.5 ov) | |||||||
| Transvaal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Heine | 24 | 2 | 86 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| Adcock | 18 | 1 | 65 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gibbs | 15.5 | 2 | 50 | 4 | - | 2 | |
| Charnas | 16 | 3 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Taylor | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Transvaal second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *AI Taylor | b Tyson | 1 | 7 | - | - | ||
| A Tayfield | c Wardle b Statham | 38 | 147 | 5 | - | ||
| WR Endean | lbw b Tyson | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| KJ Funston | c Evans b Tyson | 17 | 56 | 2 | - | ||
| +JHB Waite | st Evans b Laker | 15 | 98 | 2 | - | ||
| SR Kimber | lbw b Statham | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| GG Ritchie | c Evans b Tyson | 19 | 37 | 1 | - | ||
| M Charnas | b Laker | 12 | 42 | 3 | - | ||
| KL Gibbs | b Laker | 7 | 15 | - | - | ||
| PS Heine | c Bailey b Laker | 10 | 20 | 1 | - | ||
| NAT Adcock | not out | 2 | 8 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb, 1 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 224 minutes, 45.3 overs) | 130 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Taylor), 2-5 (Endean), 3-51 (Funston), 4-74 (Tayfield), 5-74 (Kimber), 6-87 (Waite), 7-101 (Ritchie), 8-112 (Gibbs), 9-121 (Charnas), 10-130 (Heine, 45.3 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Statham | 12 | 2 | 29 | 2 | - | - | |
| Tyson | 15 | 4 | 44 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Laker | 17.3 | 6 | 40 | 4 | - | - | |
| Wardle | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PE Richardson | c Waite b Heine | 9 | 16 | 1 | - | ||
| MC Cowdrey | c Tayfield b Adcock | 1 | 21 | - | - | ||
| ASM Oakman | c Waite b Adcock | 8 | 38 | - | - | ||
| *PBH May | c Waite b Heine | 12 | 66 | - | - | ||
| TE Bailey | c Waite b Adcock | 1 | 9 | - | - | ||
| DCS Compton | b Heine | 13 | 66 | - | - | ||
| +TG Evans | c Waite b Heine | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| FH Tyson | not out | 21 | 48 | 3 | - | ||
| JH Wardle | not out | 0 | 7 | - | - | ||
| JC Laker | did not bat | ||||||
| JB Statham | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 143 minutes, 22 overs) | 67 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Richardson), 2-10 (Cowdrey), 3-29 (Oakman), 4-31 (Bailey), 5-36 (May), 6-36 (Evans), 7-63 (Compton) | |||||||
| Transvaal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Heine | 11 | 2 | 39 | 4 | - | 3 | |
| Adcock | 11 | 3 | 26 | 3 | - | - | |
Notes
--> SR Kimber made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> WR Endean (1) 50 in 206 minutes with 4 fours
--> MC Cowdrey (1) 50 in 258 minutes with 4 fours
--> DCS Compton (1) 50 in 99 minutes with 6 fours
--> A Tayfield did not score for 60 minutes when 31 in the Transvaal second innings
--> JB Statham completed a hat-trick in the Transvaal first innings (Ritchie, Charnas, Heine)
--> PS Heine reached 200 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed TG Evans, his 3rd wicket in the Marylebone Cricket Club second innings
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