at the age of 40, he had his best domestic season, with unbeaten centuries against Natal and Griqualand West, and with places still up for grabs on the 1924 tour to England Commaille captained one of two trial sides in an end-of-season match, after which the team was chosen. Commaille's team lost the match to Neville Lindsay's team convincingly, but Commaille was picked for the tour and Lindsay was not. Commaille was not merely a player on the tour to England in 1924; he was vice-captain to Herbie Taylor. Taylor, however, played in every single first-class match on the tour and Commaille's captaincy was restricted to three non-first-class games against Scotland, Durham and a side from North Wales. But he played regularly as an opening batsman, and scored 1118 first-class runs at an average of 25.40 and with a highest score of 85. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack wrote of him that he was a "good useful batsman but, though a consistent run-getter, he did nothing out of the common". Commaille appeared in all five Test matches. In the first game, Commaille's first Test for 14 years, the South Africans were sensationally dismissed in the first innings for just 30, and Commaille, batting at No 5, was the not-out batsman, though he made only one run; in the second innings, he resumed his more normal position as an opener and made 29 out of 101 runs added while he was at the wicket, as the South Africans totalled 390, still losing the match by an innings. The second Test had a similar result, but more even batting by the South Africans; Commaille was out without scoring in the first innings but made 37, his best of the series, in the second. Commaille's personal pattern for the series was maintained in the third Test, with just four runs in the first innings and 31 in the second. Rain ruined the final two Tests, but Commaille was not successful in either of his two single innings in these matches: he failed to reach double figures in the first innings in all five Tests. In the five Tests, he scored 113 runs at an average of 16.14. Back in South Africa in 1924–25, Commaille switched allegiance from Western Province to Orange Free State and two years later in 1926–27 he made the highest score of his long career, an innings of 186 against Natal in