 In an era when South African cricket was dominated by leg break and googly bowlers, Nourse sometimes opened the bowling for the Test team and he took 41 Test wickets.He also took 43 catches.Nourse was the highest-ever scorer in South African domestic cricket, appearing for Natal from 1897 to 1925, for Transvaal for two seasons after that, and then for Western Province through to the age of 58 in the 1935-36 season, when he scored 55 against the Australians in his last first-class match.