the Australian leg of the tour: in the second match at Auckland, he also scored 17, batting at No 11: these were his first Test runs and remained his highest Test score. In the 1953–54 South African season, the Currie Cup domestic competition was suspended because of a tour by the New Zealand cricket team. Fuller played in only three first-class matches all season, taking just five wickets, and Neil Adcock emerged as the new spearhead of the South African Test attack. The following year, he returned to form and favour with 19 Currie Cup wickets, and was picked for the 1955 team to tour England. In England, Adcock was regarded initially as the leading South African opening bowler, but his lack of control in the Tests meant that he was eventually dropped. In contrast, Peter Heine emerged as a genuine fast bowler, and was played in the four final Tests of a five-Test series. Fuller benefited from Heine's omission from the first Test and Adcock's omission from the fifth, but did not play in the middle three Tests of the series. In the first match, which was won easily by England, Fuller took three for 59. Recalled in place of Adcock for the last Test, he took three more wickets in a low-scoring match that decided the series in England's favour. On the tour as a whole, Fuller took 49 first-class wickets at the average of 19.51 each. The 1955–56 season was Fuller's most successful in South African domestic cricket, with 23 wickets in five Currie Cup matches, including his career-best innings figures of seven for 40 for Western Province against Transvaal. The following season, with an England tour of South Africa, he took five wickets in an innings in two separate matches against the touring team for Western Province, but was not picked for any of the five Tests. League cricket In 1957, Fuller went to England to play as a professional in the Lancashire League for Ramsbottom. He took seven wickets for 11 runs in the Lancashire League Worsley Cup Final of 1957 as Ramsbottom dismissed Rawtenstall for just 36 to win the cup easily. He returned to South Africa for the 1957–58 season and was drafted into the Test side for his seventh, and final, Test match, the second of the 1957–58 series against Australia, because of injury to Heine. In a heavy defeat, he took