was unlucky in the second innings of the Third Test in Sydney, when several catches were dropped off his bowling. He regained his spot in the three Tests in New Zealand, where he took 12 wickets at 18.66, including his best Test figures of 6 for 58 in the second innings of the Second Test at Dunedin. (It was the only occasion on which a South African spinner took six or more wickets in a Test innings in the 40 years between Hugh Tayfield, 6 for 78 in 1956–57, and Paul Adams, 6 for 55 in 1996–97.) He played three matches in the 1964–65 season without success but found better form in 1965–66, scoring 376 runs at 37.60 and taking 13 wickets at 32.15 for Rhodesia in the "A" Section of the Currie Cup. He played in the North v. South trial match at the end of the season. Selected for a South African XI in a match against the Australian touring team before the Test series in 1966–67, he had match figures of 49.4–25–86–5 in an important victory for the home side. He returned to the Test side for the Second and Third Tests. In the second innings of the Second Test he made 55 (his next best Test score was 18), adding 86 for the eighth wicket with Peter Pollock to help give South Africa some chance of victory after they had had to follow on. However, he took no wickets in either Test and lost his place to Jackie du Preez. In his five Tests against Australia he had taken no wickets for 353 runs. He played the 1967–68 season for Transvaal in the "A" Section of the Currie Cup, then retired. Personal life He worked as head of marketing at Kearsney College in Natal until 1995. He and his wife Sarie had two daughters and a son. He died in January 2018 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for some years. References External links 1936 births 2018 deaths Cricketers from Harare Alumni of Plumtree School University of Cape Town alumni Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Zimbabwean Rhodes Scholars South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Gauteng cricketers KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Oxford University cricketers Rhodesia cricketers Western Province cricketers Gentlemen cricketers South African Universities cricketers White Rhodesian people