Old Wanderers was a cricket ground in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, South Africa

South Africa

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. The ground hosted 22 Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 from 1895 to 1939, before being rebuilt as Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

's Park Station in 1946. It has since been replaced by the nearby New Wanderers Stadium.

Records

The highest Test innings recorded at the ground was South Africa

South African cricket team

The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status...

's
491 in their 2nd innings in the drawn 2nd Test against Australia

Australian cricket team

The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...

 in 1935/36,http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1935-36/AUS_IN_RSA/AUS_RSA_T2_24-28DEC1935.html and the lowest was South Africa's 85 in their 2nd innings in the 2nd Test in 1902/03, on the way to losing to Australia by 159 runs (Jack Saunders

Jack Saunders

John Victor Saunders was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests from 1902 to 1908....

 taking 7/34). http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1900S/1902-03/AUS_IN_RSA/AUS_RSA_T2_18-21OCT1902.html The ground saw 29 Test centuries

Century (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...

, including double centuries for South African Dudley Nourse

Dudley Nourse

Arthur Dudley Nourse was a South African Test cricketer and batsmanThe son of batsman Arthur Nourse, Nourse played 34 Test matches in a long career of sixteen years...

 (231) in the drawn 2nd Test against Australia in 1935/36 http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1935-36/AUS_IN_RSA/AUS_RSA_T2_24-28DEC1935.html and Australian captain

Australian national cricket captains

Australia played in the first-ever Test match in cricket in 1877, the first-ever One Day International in 1971 and the first-ever Twenty20 international in 2005...

 and opening batsman Herbie Collins

Herbie Collins

Herbert Leslie Collins was an Australian cricketer who played 19 Tests between 1921 and 1926. An all-rounder, he captained the Australian team in eleven Tests, winning five, losing two with another four finishing in draws...

 (203) in the drawn 2nd Test in 1921/22 (only his 10th Test match, and his 2nd as captain). http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1920S/1921-22/AUS_IN_RSA/AUS_RSA_T2_12-16NOV1921.html

George Lohmann

George Lohmann

George Alfred Lohmann is regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time...

's 9/28 at Old Wanderers in the 2nd Test in 1896 was for six decades the best bowling figures in Test cricket, leading to a victory for England

English cricket team

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 by an innings and 197 runs. http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1890S/1895-96/ENG_IN_RSA/ENG_RSA_T2_02-04MAR1896.html The best bowling analysis for a Test match at the ground was Sydney Barnes

Sydney Barnes

Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the sport's history...

's 17/159 for England in the 2nd Test in 1913/14 (8/56 and 9/103) in a victory by England by an innings and 12 runs.http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1910S/1913-14/ENG_IN_RSA/ENG_RSA_T2_26-30DEC1913.html. The only other bowler to take 8 wickets in an innings at Old Wanderers was Tip Snooke

Tip Snooke

Sibley John "Tip" Snooke played Test cricket for South Africa as an all-rounder, captaining the side to victory 3-2 against England in a five-Test series in South Africa in 1909-10...

 in the 3rd Test against England (and only his third Test match) in 1905/06. http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1900S/1905-06/ENG_IN_RSA/ENG_RSA_T3_10-14MAR1906.html

External links

• Ground profile from Cricinfo
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