to be his best Test score. The success was fleeting: in the fourth Test, he was out for 20 and 3. The fifth game of the series was Curnow's last-ever Test appearance and one of the most remarkable Tests of all time: a "timeless" match, spread out, because of bad weather, over three days but amounting in all to only five hours and 33 minutes of cricket, in which South Africa were dismissed in the first innings for 36 all out and then for 45 all in the second innings. Perversely, Curnow emerged from the match with some credit: his second innings 16, following a first innings 3, was South Africa's highest score of the match and the only double-figure score of the second innings (Jock Cameron had scored 11 in the first innings). Ironmonger took 11 wickets in the match and Clarrie Grimmett, who had taken 33 wickets in the first four games of the series, did not even get to bowl. The South African team moved on from Australia to play matches in New Zealand, including two Tests, but Curnow was not picked for any of the games there. Later career After the tour to Australia and New Zealand, Curnow was a part-time and domestic-only cricketer, restricted to a few appearances each season always around the Christmas period. On his return to domestic cricket in South Africa in 1932–33 he had his most successful season, with 641 runs in four matches and a batting average of 91.57. In the first match of the season for Transvaal against Western Province he made an unbeaten 192 to lead his team to a six-wickets victory after they had been 156 behind on the first innings. Then a week later in a first-class match between North and South he made 224, the highest score of his career. But he was less successful in 1933–34 and 1934–35, failing to pass 50 in either season and he did not feature in the 1935 tour to England. He continued to play sporadically through to the Second World War, making centuries in three of the four seasons between 1936 and 1940, with a further century in a wartime first-class match in 1942–43. When more normal cricket resumed in 1945–46, he played three further games for Transvaal, but with limited success, and those were his final games in first-class cricket. References 1907 births 1986 deaths People from