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| Venue | Kingsmead, Durban on 3rd, 5th, 6th December 1927 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Marylebone Cricket Club won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | CE Saunders, Skipper |
| Close of play day 1 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 228/2 (Tyldesley 65*, Dawson 11*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Natal (1) 65/3 (Siedle 37*, Dalton 12*) |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| H Sutcliffe | c Dalton b Smith | 93 | 190 | 2 | - | ||
| P Holmes | c Hart-Davis b Tutton | 42 | 98 | - | - | ||
| GE Tyldesley | c Catterall b Borland | 76 | 140 | 7 | - | ||
| EW Dawson | c Addison b Dalton | 17 | 85 | 2 | - | ||
| RES Wyatt | not out | 56 | 118 | 3 | 1 | ||
| GB Legge | not out | 50 | 81 | 3 | - | ||
| WE Astill | did not bat | ||||||
| G Geary | did not bat | ||||||
| *+RT Stanyforth | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Staples | did not bat | ||||||
| AP Freeman | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 b, 7 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 360 minutes, 144 overs) | 354 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-103 (Holmes), 2-205 (Sutcliffe), 3-241 (Tyldesley), 4-262 (Dawson) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 29 | 7 | 66 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tutton | 34 | 8 | 85 | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Woods | 18 | 4 | 31 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Borland | 24 | 5 | 59 | 1 | - | - | |
| Catterall | 14 | 3 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Addison | 6 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dalton | 19 | 1 | 57 | 1 | - | - | |
| Natal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IJ Siedle | b Wyatt | 80 | 189 | 7 | - | ||
| JFW Nicolson | b Geary | 2 | 11 | - | - | ||
| *RH Catterall | c Legge b Staples | 5 | 22 | 1 | - | ||
| LTH Trotter | b Staples | 1 | 8 | - | - | ||
| EL Dalton | c and b Astill | 27 | 73 | 2 | - | ||
| CE Tutton | c Stanyforth b Astill | 33 | 82 | 2 | - | ||
| LP Addison | c Legge b Freeman | 15 | 56 | 1 | - | ||
| AP Woods | b Astill | 3 | 2 | - | - | ||
| AF Borland | c Sutcliffe b Astill | 9 | 24 | 1 | - | ||
| FJ Smith | not out | 1 | 8 | - | - | ||
| +GC Hart-Davis | b Astill | 2 | 2 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (5 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 249 minutes, 109 overs) | 192 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Nicolson), 2-20 (Catterall), 3-22 (Trotter), 4-94 (Dalton), 5-149 (Siedle), 6-167 (Tutton), 7-173 (Woods), 8-189 (Borland), 9-189 (Addison), 10-192 (Hart-Davis, 109 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Geary | 18 | 9 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Staples | 30 | 12 | 40 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Freeman | 30 | 5 | 69 | 1 | - | - | |
| Astill | 27 | 14 | 42 | 5 | - | - | |
| Wyatt | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | - | - | |
| Natal second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IJ Siedle | c Staples b Wyatt | 19 | 35 | 2 | - | ||
| JFW Nicolson | b Geary | 8 | 25 | 1 | - | ||
| *RH Catterall | c Dawson b Legge | 63 | 111 | 7 | 1 | ||
| LTH Trotter | b Freeman | 29 | 66 | 2 | - | ||
| EL Dalton | hit wkt b Legge | 38 | 41 | 6 | - | ||
| CE Tutton | c and b Legge | 0 | 8 | - | - | ||
| LP Addison | not out | 1 | 7 | - | - | ||
| AP Woods | not out | 0 | 6 | - | - | ||
| AF Borland | did not bat | ||||||
| FJ Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| +GC Hart-Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 1 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 133 minutes, 57 overs) | 167 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Nicolson), 2-37 (Siedle), 3-94 (Trotter), 4-158 (Catterall), 5-166 (Dalton), 6-167 (Tutton) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Geary | 11 | 4 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wyatt | 19 | 7 | 47 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Astill | 10 | 3 | 26 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Freeman | 7 | 1 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Staples | 7 | 4 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Legge | 3 | 0 | 23 | 3 | - | - | |