which he shared a second-wicket partnership of 305 with Shunter Coen which remains a Free State first-class record to this day. In the following match, the same pairing hit off the 236 runs needed for victory over Eastern Province to set the record for the first-wicket partnership that also remains unbeaten. In 1927–28, England toured South Africa. Commaille, just a few months short of his 44th birthday, made 77 and 54 in the first-class match between Orange Free State and the English team (playing as MCC). He followed that with a century in a non-competitive two-day first-class game against Natal and was then picked for the first two Tests of the five-match series. In the first match, he scored 23 and 4 in a game of many low scores – only 12 out of 35 individual innings reached double figures. In the second game, he followed a first innings of 13 with a score of 47 in the second innings, his best in Tests, and he shared an opening partnership of 115 with Herbie Taylor which constituted more than half the South African total of 224. With the South Africans losing both the first two Tests, however, he was dropped from the team for the subsequent matches in which a series draw was obtained, and he did not play Test cricket again. Commaille continued in first-class cricket for a further three seasons, switching teams to Griqualand West in 1929–30 and finally retiring after a single game in 1930–31. References 1883 births 1956 deaths South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Free State cricketers Griqualand West cricketers Western Province cricketers