Acricket team fromSouth America touredEngland, Scotland and Wales in the1932 season. The team played sixfirst-class matches and 12 other games. A seventh first-class match withWorcestershire was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
This tour was the only occasion on which the South Americans played first-class cricket as a team representing the whole continent, though individual members of the side played for their countries in matches against touring teams from England that were designated as first-class.
The team was captained byClement Gibson, who had played first-class cricket in England forCambridge University,MCC andSussex.[1][2]
The full team was:
Clement Gibson (c)Cyril AylingDennet AylingGeorge Ferguson
Arthur Grass
Alfred JacksonArnold JacobsFrederick KeenJohn KnoxRichard LathamHenry MarshalJames PaulRonald PryorRobert StuartCharles SuttonThe team played six first-class matches, and a seventh against Worcestershire was abandoned without any play.
They beat an under-strengthOxford University by 10 wickets after Marshal scored 153, Ferguson 85, and Dennet Ayling took 10 wickets in the match for 87 runs.
Leicestershire then won the second first-class game rather easily by an innings and 33 runs, with the South American batting unreliable in both innings in a match affected by heavy showers. The Army also beat the touring side after a South American first innings of 303, in which Stuart scored 133, was followed by a second innings batting collapse.
The match againstSir Julien Cahn's XI produced a remarkable victory for the South Americans. Cahn's XI made 413 in the first innings, largely due to 251 forDenys Morkel, theSouth AfricanTest player, made in four hours. The South Americans responded with a century opening stand between Jackson and Dennet Ayling and totalled 338. The Ayling brothers then each took five wickets as Cahn's XI were all out for 150 and Dennet Ayling, with an unbeaten 86, took the touring side to victory by five wickets, sharing another century opening stand with Jackson.
The match withSussex was affected by rain and left drawn. Knox made an unbeaten 110, batting at No 9 in the South American innings. The final match of the tour was a heavy defeat toScotland by eight wickets.
The South Americans played 12 other matches, all of them one- and two-day games, and many of them affected by the weather in a wet summer. All the games were drawn, except the matches againstKent's Second Eleven and a team calling itself the Gentlemen of Somerset, both of which the touring team lost.
The match againstMCC atLord's was a two-day game. MCC were captained by the 58-year-oldPelham Warner and included the South African Test playerHerbie Taylor andEngland playersJ.W.Hearne andEddie Dawson. The South Americans had slightly the worse of a high-scoring draw.