Quintin McMillan

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Quintin McMillan
Transvaal
, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg-break and googly
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 130)29 June 1929 v England
Last Test7 March 1932 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1928/29–1929/30
Transvaal
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 13 50
Runs scored 306 1,607
Batting average 18.00 26.78
100s/50s 0/1 1/6
Top score 50* 185*
Balls bowled 2021 8,845
Wickets 36 189
Bowling average 34.52 26.62
5 wickets in innings 2 12
10 wickets in match 0 2
Best bowling 5/66 9/53
Catches/stumpings 8/– 30/–
Source: CricketArchive, 4 March 2012

Quintin McMillan (23 June 1904 – 3 July 1948) was a South African cricketer who played in thirteen Test matches between 1929 and 1931/32.[1]

Early cricket career

Born in

Orange Free State.[4]
The innings proved to be the highest of his first-class career and his only century.

Tour to England

On the 1929 South African cricket tour to England, McMillan took more first-class wickets, 91, than any other bowler and he also made 749 first-class runs, mostly batting in the lower-order. Yet he was largely overlooked for the Test matches, playing only in the second game of the five-match series, when Cyril Vincent was injured, and in the last game when the series was already lost. In early matches, he took five wickets for 36 in Glamorgan's second innings, but was overshadowed by Vincent's match figures of 11 for 89.[5] And against Cambridge University he took five for 45.[6]

McMillan's Test debut came at Lord's but as a bowler he was unable to make any impact, failing to take a wicket; he scored 17 in his only innings.

England's innings and then making an unbeaten 50 in a big South African total.[10]
This was to be his only Test match half-century.

Home series against England

Back home in South Africa, McMillan all but disappeared from first-class cricket outside Tests. There was a single appearance in the 1929–30 season and none at all in the 1930–31 season, apart from the five Test matches against

England touring team, where he played in every match. The first game prived to be decisive in the series: South Africa won by 28 runs and all the other games in the series were drawn. McMillan's contribution to the victory came with bat rather than ball. With South Africa reduced to 81 for nine wickets, McMillan and last batsman Bob Newson put on 45 for the 10th wicket, and McMillan was left unbeaten on 45, his highest score of the series, when Newson was bowled by Maurice Tate. He scored 14 in the second innings but took only one English wicket.[11] The second Test was a high-scoring draw, and McMillan took five wickets in the match at a cost of 35 runs apiece.[12] The third match was ruined by rain, and McMillan contributed little with either bat or ball.[13] In the fourth Test, there were a couple of wickets from him and some useful runs in the second innings when, after a competitive declaration by England, South Africa was fleetingly in danger of losing the match.[14] With South Africa needing only to draw the final Test to secure the series victory, McMillan again chipped in with scores of 29 not out and 28, and a couple of wickets as a slow match drifted to a draw.[15]
In the series as a whole, McMillan had contributed 180 runs at an average of 30 and 10 wickets at an average of 40.90.

Tour to Australia and New Zealand

Though McMillan's Test figures had been modest, he was cited as "the best slow bowler of the tourists" in a syndicated

1931–32 tour to Australia and New Zealand.[8]
The same article described him as "short and tubby".

In fact, the tour marked the end of McMillan's first-class cricket career, and it began very well for him, with a career-best bowling performance of nine wickets for 53 runs in

pair" of the series.[20]

Having lost the Australian series 5–0, the South Africans then moved on to New Zealand to play two Test matches against much less demanding opposition, winning both games. McMillan had his two best Test bowling performances in these games. In the first of them, he took four for 61 in the first innings and followed that with five for 66 in the second innings.[21] In the second match he took five for 125 in the first innings and a further two wickets in the second.[22]

End of cricket career

The second Test in New Zealand was McMillan's final game of first-class cricket. He did not appear in South African domestic cricket in later seasons. He retired to a career in business and died in July 1948 at

Transvaal, aged 44.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Quintin McMillan". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. ^ "First-class matches played in Each Season by Quintin McMillan". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Scorecard: Eastern Province v Transvaal". www.cricketarchive.com. 24 December 1928. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Scorecard: Orange Free State v Transvaal". www.cricketarchive.com. 28 December 1928. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Scorecard: Glamorgan v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 18 May 1929. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  6. ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 18 May 1929. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  7. ^ "Scorecard: England v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 29 June 1929. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  8. ^ a b "Youthful South Africans". Advertiser and Register. Adelaide. 24 August 1931. p. 6. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  9. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 31 July 1929. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  10. ^ "Scorecard: England v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 17 August 1929. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  11. ^ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 24 December 1930. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  12. ^ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 1 January 1931. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  13. ^ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 16 January 1931. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  14. ^ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 13 February 1931. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  15. ^ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 21 February 1931. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  16. ^ "Scorecard: South Australia v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 30 October 1931. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  17. ^ "Scorecard: Australia v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 November 1931. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  18. ^ "Scorecard: Australia v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 31 December 1931. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  19. ^ "Scorecard: Australia v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 29 January 1932. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  20. ^ "Scorecard: Australia v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 12 February 1932. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  21. ^ "Scorecard: New Zealand v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 February 1932. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  22. ^ "Scorecard: New Zealand v South Africa". www.cricketarchive.com. 4 March 1932. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  23. ^ "The man who retrieved the Ashes". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
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