South African cricket team in Australia in 1910–11
| South African cricket team in Australia in 1910–11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | November 1910 — March 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the 5-Test series 4-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The South Africa national cricket team toured Australia from November 1910 to March 1911 to play five test matches against Australia. This was the South Africans first tour of Australia and the second tour between the two nations after the Australia tour of South Africa in late 1902.
Before the first test, the South Africans played in five warm-up matches before the first test. Australia would win the opening two tests of the series in Sydney and Melbourne, before South Africa recorded their first test win against Australia in the third test at Adelaide by 28 runs. Three more tour matches against Tasmania and Victoria were played before the fourth test in Melbourne where the Australians won the series by 530 runs. After a tour match against New South Wales a week prior, the South Africans would go on to lose the final test match by seven wickets.
Aubrey Faulkner was leading the run scorer for the series with 732 runs from ten innings, while the leading wicket taker was Australian bowler Bill Whitty who took 37 wickets in ten innings.