 Perhaps his greatest Test match was the first game of the England tour in 1905–06, when South Africa gained its first-ever victory against England.Batting at No 8 and arriving with the score at 105 for six wickets, Nourse hit an unbeaten 93 and, with a last-wicket partnership of 48 with Percy Sherwell, took South Africa to an unlikely target of 284.Nourse toured England three times, in 1907, 1912 and 1924, and went to Australia in 1910–11.