George Parker (cricketer)

George Macdonald Parker (27 May 1899 – 1 May 1969) was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1924.

He is almost unique in that two of the three

In that match, which ended disastrously after Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate produced one of the finest bowling performances in Test history to bowl South Africa out for a mere 30 runs in their first innings, Parker was by far the best of the South African bowlers, taking six of the ten wickets that fell for 152 runs.^[3] In the second Test, which England won by the same margin of an innings and 18 runs, Parker was the only bowler to take a wicket, taking the two wickets that fell for 121 runs in an innings declared for 531 runs.

However, Parker was not able to play in matches against counties and, despite having taken two-thirds of the wickets that had fallen in the first two Tests, he was not given a further trial. He never played first-class cricket again, and is still the only South African Test cricketer not to play first-class cricket in his own country.^[4]

Parker returned to South Africa and in 1929 married Marguerite Grace Illingworth ("Peg") of Bradford, England. They raised five children in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. In his latter years Parker's research in breeding sheep for better wool led him to Australia, where he died in

See also

• List of South Africa cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut

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