#1929

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New Zealand Granted Test Status — Imperial Cricket Conference, 1929

New Zealand and Imperial Cricket Conference

1929-05-31

On 31 May 1929 the Imperial Cricket Conference at Lord's voted to grant New Zealand full Test status, making it the fifth Test-playing nation. The first New Zealand Test was scheduled for January 1930 against MCC at Christchurch — the formal admission of a country whose 1927 tour of England had impressed observers across the counties.

#new-zealand#test-status#imperial-cricket-conference

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George Headley's Caribbean Form — Selected for First Home Test Series, 1929

Jamaica and West Indies

1929-12-15

Through the 1929 Caribbean season the 20-year-old George Headley scored consistently for Jamaica against the visiting Tennyson XI and in inter-colonial matches. By December 1929 he had been selected for the West Indies' first home Test series against MCC the following month — a tour that would produce his breakthrough.

#george-headley#west-indies#jamaica

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Learie Constantine Joins Nelson — Lancashire League, 1929

Nelson Cricket Club / Lancashire League

1929-04-01

In the spring of 1929 Learie Constantine signed a contract with Nelson Cricket Club in the Lancashire League — the first West Indian Test cricketer to take a full professional contract in English league cricket. He stayed with Nelson until 1937 and inspired a wave of Caribbean professionals to follow.

#learie-constantine#lancashire-league#nelson

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South Africa in England 1929 — Cameron's Tourists Lose 2-0

England v South Africa

1929-08-19

Nummy Deane's South Africans played five Tests in England in the long summer of 1929, losing the series 0-2 with three drawn but providing Hammond, Sutcliffe and Woolley with their first sustained run of home Test runs since 1926.

#south-africa#england#1929

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The Imperial Cricket Conference Expands — Test Status for India, WI, NZ, 1926-29

Imperial Cricket Conference / Member countries

1929-05-31

Across three Imperial Cricket Conference meetings between May 1926 and May 1929, Test status was granted in turn to the West Indies (1926), India (1929) and New Zealand (1929) — tripling the number of Test nations in three years and transforming international cricket from a three-country game into a six-country one.

#imperial-cricket-conference#icc#test-status

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K.S. Duleepsinhji's Emergence — 333 v Northamptonshire, 1929

Sussex v Northamptonshire

1929-05-15

On 15 May 1929 the 24-year-old K.S. Duleepsinhji — Ranji's nephew and the second member of the family to play county cricket for Sussex — made 333 against Northamptonshire at Hove, then a Sussex record and the highest score made on the south coast in county cricket.

#duleepsinhji#sussex#england

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Ranji Trophy Discussions Begin — Indian First-Class Structure, 1929

BCCI and Indian provincial cricket associations

1929-08-15

In the first year after its foundation the Board of Control for Cricket in India began discussions on a national first-class competition modelled on the County Championship and Sheffield Shield. The Ranji Trophy was eventually launched in 1934-35, but its founding deliberations began in mid-1929 with the BCCI's first executive meeting.

#ranji-trophy#india#bcci

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Wilfred Rhodes — England's Senior Statesman, 1929 Final Test Year

Yorkshire and England

1929-08-31

By 1929 Wilfred Rhodes was 51 years old and still bowling left-arm orthodox spin for Yorkshire — the senior statesman of English cricket who had bowled to W.G. Grace 30 years earlier and was now coaching the next generation. His final selection for England came in the 1929-30 West Indies tour, by which time he was 52.

#wilfred-rhodes#yorkshire#england