In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on Test matches between Australia and South Africa.
En route back home after spending the summer of 1902 in England, the Australian squad had a month-long stopover in South Africa. Over this period, they played three Test matches against the hosts – the first between the sides. South Africa clung on to a draw in the first Test, but Australia won the other two comfortably.
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The two teams faced off several times until South Africa’s apartheid ban. Perhaps the most famous performance was Stan McCabe’s famous fourth-innings 189 not out at Johannesburg in 1935/36, when fielding captain Herby Wade had to appeal for bad light to avoid defeat.
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Australia were the last team to play South Africa at men’s Test cricket before the latter’s ban. When South Africa were ostracised, the Bloemfontein-born Kepler Wessels played for Australia. When South Africa returned to the fray, Wessels became their first Test captain.
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The rivalry between the two great Southern Hemisphere sides is long and intense. Take our quiz to test your knowledge on Australia-South Africa Test matches.
Quiz! How well do you know Australia-South Africa Test matches?
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