Catterall played in a second first-class match for Transvaal against the touring side and top-scored for his team with 68 in the first innings. With scores of 31 and 8 he was less successful in the fourth Test, and in the final game, which England won to take the series, he also performed modestly, making 17 and 22 in the two innings. In the series as a whole, Catterall had scored 272 runs at an average of 30.22 and in terms of the South African team was third in aggregate and fourth in the averages. 1924 Test series in England Catterall played no first-class cricket between the end of the 1922–23 season and the start of the 1924 South African tour to England, for which he was selected. He had a strange tour, as Wisden Cricketers' Almanack noted: "Taking the whole tour through, Catterall had quite a modest record—1,389 runs with an average of 27," it wrote. "But inasmuch as he triumphed in the Test matches, scoring 120 at Birmingham, 120 at Lord's and 95 at the Oval, he was in a sense the outstanding figure on the side." Wisden backed this judgment by making him one of its five Cricketers of the Year in the 1925 almanack. The Test series began badly for the South Africans: in reply to an England total of 438 made through consistent batting, the touring team were shot out in 45 minutes for just 30 in 12-and-a-half overs by Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate, with Catterall, opening the innings, failing to score. It was and remains the lowest Test score in England and at the time it equalled the lowest innings score in all Test cricket. South Africa's second innings was very different, but, trailing by 408, they fell 18 runs short of making England bat again: "Nothing during the tour did the South Africans more credit than the way in which, on following on, they battled against overwhelming odds," Wisden reported. Catterall, batting in the middle order, led the team to a total of 390 by scoring 120, and was the last man out. The result in the second Test of the series, held at Lord's, was identical to the first game, and Catterall's first-innings score of 120 was a repeat performance too. He benefited from being dropped when his score was five by the wicketkeeper George Wood, and again at 30 in