England come up against a battery of googly bowlers on matting

December 28, 1905. Faced with an unprecedented battery of googly bowlers on an unfamiliar matting wicket, the English side faced their first ever defeat in a First-Class match in South Africa. Arunabha Sengupta recalls the day Plum Warner’s men were stunned by the incredible Transvaal rally engineered by Reggie Schwarz and a young Aubrey Faulkner. 

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