an innings; the second, in which Rabone had little success, was lost by 132 runs. But the third game, which ended as a draw, saw New Zealand's then-highest Test score, 505, and the first time the team had managed to enforce the follow-on. Rabone not only scored 56, but then took six wickets for 68 runs as South Africa were bowled out for 326, his best Test bowling. The tour ended in an anticlimax for Rabone, though, as he broke a bone in a foot during a provincial match and could not take part in the last two Tests. Rabone was restored to the New Zealand captaincy the following year for the 1954–55 MCC tour of New Zealand. The results in the two Tests were poor and there was criticism of his captaincy, but Rabone's own adhesive qualities seemed undiminished. In the first innings of the first match, he was one of only two players – the other was Sutcliffe – to reach double figures, taking three hours to score 18. And in the second, when New Zealand were dismissed for the record Test low of 26, he was again second highest scorer and longest survivor, with 7 in 53 minutes. Both matches, though, were lost by a distance. That was the end of his Test cricket, though he played for Auckland for a few more seasons. In retirement, he was a New Zealand selector. References New Zealand cricketers New Zealand Test cricket captains New Zealand Test cricketers Auckland cricketers Wellington cricketers 1921 births 2006 deaths People educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School People from Gore, New Zealand New Zealand World War II pilots North Island cricketers