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| Venue | Newlands, Cape Town on 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th January 1936 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by an innings and 78 runs |
| Umpires | RGA Ashman, JC Collings |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 362/8 (Grimmett 30*, McCormick 0*) |
| Close of play day 3 | South Africa (2) 11/0 (Siedle 5*, Wade 5*) |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JHW Fingleton | c Wade b Balaskas | 112 | 191 | 7 | - | ||
| WA Brown | c and b Robertson | 121 | 207 | 5 | 1 | ||
| SJ McCabe | c and b Balaskas | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| LS Darling | lbw b Balaskas | 12 | 24 | 1 | - | ||
| *VY Richardson | lbw b Crisp | 14 | 58 | - | - | ||
| AG Chipperfield | b Langton | 30 | 62 | 1 | - | ||
| +WAS Oldfield | b Robertson | 8 | 18 | 2 | - | ||
| CV Grimmett | not out | 30 | 41 | 2 | - | ||
| WJ O'Reilly | b Balaskas | 17 | 30 | - | - | ||
| EL McCormick | not out | 0 | 6 | - | - | ||
| LO Fleetwood-Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (14 b, 4 lb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 115 overs) | 362 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-233 (Fingleton), 2-235 (McCabe), 3-251 (Brown), 4-259 (Darling), 5-299 (Richardson), 6-313 (Chipperfield), 7-313 (Oldfield), 8-361 (O'Reilly) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Crisp | 14 | 2 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Langton | 30 | 2 | 94 | 1 | - | - | |
| Robertson | 29 | 8 | 75 | 2 | - | - | |
| Balaskas | 38 | 1 | 126 | 4 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Africa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IJ Siedle | lbw b Grimmett | 1 | 36 | - | - | ||
| *HF Wade | c and b McCabe | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| EAB Rowan | b Grimmett | 12 | 11 | 2 | - | ||
| B Mitchell | c Fingleton b O'Reilly | 14 | 24 | 1 | - | ||
| KG Viljoen | st Oldfield b Fleetwood-Smith | 14 | 43 | 2 | - | ||
| AD Nourse | not out | 44 | 65 | 4 | - | ||
| +F Nicholson | b Fleetwood-Smith | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| ACB Langton | b Grimmett | 3 | 7 | - | - | ||
| RJ Crisp | b Grimmett | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| XC Balaskas | b Grimmett | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| JB Robertson | run out | 1 | 6 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (13 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 38.2 overs) | 102 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Wade), 2-12 (Rowan), 3-21 (Siedle), 4-29 (Mitchell), 5-86 (Viljoen), 6-88 (Nicholson), 7-95 (Langton), 8-95 (Crisp), 9-95 (Balaskas), 10-102 (Robertson, 38.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McCormick | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| McCabe | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Reilly | 11 | 4 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Grimmett | 17 | 4 | 32 | 5 | - | - | |
| Fleetwood-Smith | 6.2 | 0 | 21 | 2 | - | - | |
| South Africa second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IJ Siedle | b Grimmett | 59 | 98 | 7 | - | ||
| *HF Wade | lbw b Fleetwood-Smith | 31 | 91 | 1 | - | ||
| EAB Rowan | c Richardson b O'Reilly | 19 | 74 | 1 | - | ||
| AD Nourse | c and b Grimmett | 25 | 61 | 3 | - | ||
| B Mitchell | b Grimmett | 0 | 8 | - | - | ||
| KG Viljoen | c O'Reilly b Grimmett | 23 | 45 | 4 | - | ||
| +F Nicholson | c and b O'Reilly | 4 | 19 | - | - | ||
| ACB Langton | b O'Reilly | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | ||
| RJ Crisp | c Richardson b O'Reilly | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| JB Robertson | not out | 12 | 15 | 2 | - | ||
| XC Balaskas | b Grimmett | 2 | 6 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 87.4 overs) | 182 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-87 (Wade), 2-97 (Siedle), 3-137 (Nourse), 4-137 (Rowan), 5-139 (Mitchell), 6-146 (Nicholson), 7-156 (Langton), 8-156 (Crisp), 9-174 (Viljoen), 10-182 (Balaskas, 87.4 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McCormick | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Grimmett | 36.4 | 17 | 56 | 5 | - | - | |
| Fleetwood-Smith | 24 | 4 | 80 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Reilly | 25 | 15 | 35 | 4 | - | - | |