and 107 wickets in all first-class matches; Francis shone neither in the Tests nor in the other games. His six Test wickets cost 42 runs each and he conceded three-and-a-half runs an over; in first-class games he took just 56 wickets at an average of 31.96. He bowled West Indies' first ball in Test cricket in the game at Lord's, and in the match at The Oval he took four wickets for 112 runs, but England needed to bat only once in each of the three Tests, and the lowest total scored off the West Indies' bowling was the 351 of the second match. In the games against the first-class counties, Francis did not take five wickets in any single innings. In a first-class festival cricket match at the end of the season against the Harlequins, an amateur team composed of former Oxford and Cambridge University players, Francis enjoyed his best-ever match with the bat: in the first innings, he made 61 and put on 107 for the last wicket in 50 minutes with Joe Small; in the second innings, he added 73 with Griffith for the last wicket and was 32 not out when the innings ended. The 61 was Francis' highest score in first-class cricket and his only score of more than 50. Tests in the West Indies and Australia The next stages in the elevation of West Indies to Test status were that a team was sent to the Caribbean in 1929–30 by Marylebone Cricket Club to play a series of four Test matches and, the following season, a West Indian side travelled to Australia for the first Test series between those sides: Francis featured in matches in both seasons. The England side of 1929–30 was composed partly of Test-class players – a second tour of similar standing was organised by MCC to another of the new Test nations, New Zealand, at the same time, and some established Test players opted out of both of them. The West Indies' Test team for this series was selected match-by-match by the individual countries' cricket authorities, and Francis played in only one Test, the third match, played at Georgetown, British Guiana; this was the West Indies' first Test victory, and though the batting, led by George Headley with a century in each innings and by Clifford Roach with a double-century in the first innings, took credit in the Wisden report,