January, he was picked for the fourth Test, although he had played no first-class cricket in the meantime: the move was again unsuccessful, and he scored just 7 and 5. In 1928–29, the Currie Cup was not contested, but Duminy appeared in three first-class matches for Transvaal. In the third of these, against Border, he made the only century of his first-class career, an unbeaten 168, and took six wickets in a single innings for 40 runs, half his career total of wickets. That was his final first-class game in South Africa. The codicil to his career was an odd one. He was not picked for the 1929 tour of England, but in the summer of 1929 was in Europe. The contemporary Wisden Cricketers' Almanack report states that he "happened to be on a business or professional visit to Europe"; Wisden's obituary of Duminy in 1981 is more specific and says "he was holidaying in Switzerland when he was sent for to join a team beset with injuries". He was conscripted straight into the Test team for the third match of a five-game series at Leeds, and once again, he was not a success, scoring 2 and 12. He stayed with the South African team for the next two first-class matches after the Test, but then departed, and did not play first-class cricket again. References External links 1897 births 1980 deaths People from the Western Cape South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Oxford University cricketers Gauteng cricketers Western Province cricketers South African Rhodes Scholars Alumni of University College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cape Town Presidents of the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science