{"id":109539,"date":"2017-12-09T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:15","slug":"shortest-test-match-in-history-1932-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/shortest-test-match-in-history-1932-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortest test match in history, 1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dTKopRI-0Eo\/TVl0vqcENlI\/AAAAAAAAB1I\/w5bxAlUN50c\/s1600\/Australian_Cricket_Team_1932.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573614376042378834\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/australian_cricket_team_1932.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109540\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 172px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>The  shortest test in cricketing history in terms of minutes played and  balls bowled took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 1932  South African tour of Australia. The South African captain, &#8216;Jock&#8217;  Cameron, won the toss and elected to bat as the clouds gathered. The  South Africans only managed to score 36 before being bowled out just  after the lunch break with Bert Ironmonger, who had been dropped for the  previous test, taking five wickets for only six runs.<\/p>\n<p>The  Australian team [pictured] went out to bat without the great Donald  Bradman who had badly twisted his ankle in the dressing room before the  start of the match. Nevertheless, they managed to score 153 runs on a  particularly sticky wicket. Alan Kippax was the top scorer, accumulating  42 runs before being caught by Syd Curnow. The first day&#8217;s play ended  with the South Africans on five runs for the cost of one wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Rain  prevented any play on the second day and continued during the rest day.  Play finally resumed on the 15th February at 2:15. The South Africans  continued to struggle with the wet pitch, being bowled out for only 45  runs with Ironmonger adding another seven wickets to his first innings  haul. Australia won the match by an innings and 72 runs after only five  and a half hours play in which only 656 balls were bowled.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortest test in cricketing history in terms of minutes played and balls bowled took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 1932 South African tour of Australia. The South African captain, &#8216;Jock&#8217; Cameron, won the toss and elected to bat as the clouds gathered. The South Africans only managed to score 36 before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}