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English cricket team in South Africa in 1888–89 : ウィキペディア英語版 | English cricket team in South Africa in 1888–89
The 1888-89 South African cricket season saw the first two first-class cricket matches played in South Africa. However, this designation was given many years later. The season saw the first tour by an England team that was accorded first-class status. The tour was managed by Major Warton and captained by C. Aubrey Smith, under whose name the team played. The two games against representative South African sides were later designated as Test matches, thereby making them the first two Tests South Africa played. England won both of them easily. ==First-class season overview==
The English touring team of 1888-89 consisted of 7 county-standard players and 6 of good clubs standard. Altham compared them to a weak English county. The South African team was extremely weak, and these games were not recognised as Tests by England at the time. Indeed, ''Wisden's Cricketers Almanack'' noted that "it was never intended, or considered necessary, to take out a representative English team for a first trip to the Cape". The England team did, however, include some stars such as Johnny Briggs and Bobby Abel, and George Ulyett, who replaced a player who had to return from South Africa due to a family bereavement. Although the English team is said not to have paid its expenses, it was otherwise financially successful. The cricketers were warmly welcomed. England were led by Aubrey Smith, who became the most widely known of England's cricket captains as a result of becoming a "B" list Hollywood star. They played all their matches, except the two that later came to be regarded as Test matches, against odds, and lost some of them too. Of the 19 games they played, they won 13, including the 2 that later became recognised as Test matches, losing 4 and abandoning 2.
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