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John McIllwaine Moore "Mick" Commaille (born 21 February 1883 in Cape Town, Cape Province, died 28 July 1956 in Sea Point, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in 12 Tests from 1909–10 to 1927–28.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Mick Commaille )〕 He also played international amateur football for South Africa. In cricket, Commaille had a very long career as a right-handed opening batsman, first appearing for Western Province in 1905–06 and not making his final first-class appearance until 1930–31, when he was playing for Griqualand West. ==Cricket before the First World War== Commaille made a single appearance as a middle-order batsman for Western Province against the 1905–06 MCC side, making little impression. He returned to the Western Province side as an opening batsman in the 1908–09 Currie Cup competition, scoring 74 in the match against Border. A few days later he scored 34 and 65 against Transvaal as Western Province beat their rivals by six runs to take the Cup. In the 1909–10 season, an England team toured South Africa, playing its non-Test matches as Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The game against Western Province was won by MCC by an innings inside two days, and Commaille scored only 13 and 14 in the two Western Province innings. Despite this modest record, Commaille was picked for the South Africa team for the first Test, batting down the order at No 8 in the first innings and No 9 in the second; he scored just 8 in the first innings but in the second he made 19 and put on 74 for the eighth wicket with Aubrey Faulkner, who made 123. Commaille's adhesive powers were demonstrated again in the second Test. Having failed with a score of just 3 in the first innings when batting at No 9, he was promoted to No 6 in the second innings and scored 30 out of 103 made while he was at the wicket as South Africa amassed a match-winning total after a tie on first innings. There was further promotion up the batting order in the third Test: he scored 39 batting at No 6 in the first innings and then just 2 batting at No 3 in the second. Finally in the fourth Test he was tried as an opening batsman alongside Billy Zulch and responded with an innings of 42, his highest of the series and the highest of the South African first innings; he scored just three in the second innings. He was not successful in the final Test, scoring just four and five as England won easily. In the five Tests, Commaille scored 155 runs at an average of just 15.50. Despite this modest performance, Commaille was selected for the 1910–11 tour of Australia, the first Test tour of Australia by a South African team. He was not successful on the tour, however, and was selected for only six first-class matches and none of the Tests; in some games he batted as low as No 10 and his highest score on tour was just 29, with an average of only 9.90.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 South Africans in Australia 1910–11: First-class Batting and Fielding )〕 Commaille supplemented his cricket with some journalism on the tour, writing an adulatory article about the Tasmanian leg of the tour for The Argus newspaper. He was more successful in domestic South African cricket in 1912–13 and scored 55 and 103, his first century, in the match against Orange Free State. In 1913–14, there was another tour of South Africa by an England team; Commaille played in both the first-class matches for Western Province against the touring side, and scored 52 in the second of them, but by this time all the Tests had been played and he had not been picked for any of them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mick Commaille」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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