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Europe v British Commonwealth
| 1956-57 | Series tied 2-2 (& 1 match abandoned) | ||||||
| OFFICIAL | 31.01 : Randfontein | Europe | 50 | British Commonwealth | 56 | ||
| 08.02 : Pretoria | Europe | 54 | British Commonwealth | 53 | |||
| 01.03 : Pretoria | Europe | 59 | British Commonwealth | 49 | |||
| 02.03 : Randfontein | Europe | 49 | British Commonwealth | 59 | |||
| 15.03 : Pretoria | Europe | 15 | British Commonwealth | 9 | abandoned | ||
| Europe | Total | British Commonwealth | Total | ||||||||||||
| Olle Nygren (Swe) © | 9 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 62 | Barry Briggs (NZ) © | 15 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 67 |  |
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| Frank Johnson (Eng) | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 41 | Trevor Redmond (Sth Af) | 14 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 59 | ||
| Howdy Byford (Eng) | 8 | 6 | 11 | 4 | ? | ? | Ray Cresp (Aus) | 14 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 42 | ||
| Dennis Newton (Eng) | 7 | 11 | 9 | 13 | ? | ? | Trevor Blokdyk (Sth Af) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | ? | ? | ||
| Ronnie Genz (Eng) | 4 | 4 | 11 | 9 | ? | ? | Howdy Cornell (Sth Af) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 16 | ||
| Peter Craven (Eng) | 15 | 3 | - | - | - | 18 | Fred van Zyl (Sth Af) | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | ||
| Jim Scott (Sth Af)* | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 | Dick Scott (Sth Af) | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | ||
| Kevin Robertson (S A) | - | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | Jim Scott (Sth Af)* | - | 1 | - | - | 0 | 1 | ||
| Nic Dormehl (Sth Af) | - | - | - | - | ? | ? | Charlie Branders (Sth Af) | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Percy Binder (Sth Af)* | - | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | Percy Binder (Sth Af)* | - | - | - | - | ? | ? | ||
| * Jim Scott and Percy Binder rode for both teams | |||||||||||||||
| Notes
: In the 1st Test, Craven broke the track record in the first heat. In the 2nd.Test, run immediately following a thunderstorm, Craven damaged his knee in his second ride. Hence Nygren, Byford, and Newton each had 7 rides. 5th.Test scorers are incomplete |
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| 1st Test at Randfontein | |||||||||
| Europe | 50 | British Commonwealth | 56 | Ht
5: Cresp, Blokdyk, Genz (f), Nygren (ret) 63.9 0-5 9-20 Ht 6: Newton, Redmond, Byford, van Zyl 64.2 4-2 13-22 Ht 7: Craven, Johnson, Cresp, Blokdyk 62.0 5-1 18-23 Ht 8: Nygren, Redmond, van Zyl, Scott 64.8 3-3 21-26 Ht 9: Briggs, Byford, Cornell, Newton 64.1 2-4 23-30 Ht 10: Craven, Redmond, Johnson, van Zyl 62.2 4-2 27-32 Ht 11: Nygren, Briggs, Genz, Cornell 64.7 4-2 31-34 Ht 12: Cresp, Newton, Byford, Blokdyk 64.6 3-3 34-37 Ht 13: Craven, Briggs, Johnson, Cornell 63.1 4-2 38-39 Ht 14: Nygren, Cresp, Blokdyk, Genz 65.1 3-3 41-42 Ht 15: Redmond, Byford, van Zyl, Newton 64.9 2-4 43-46 Ht 16: Craven, Cresp, Johnson, Blokdyk 62.2 4-2 47-48 Ht 17: Redmond, van Zyl, Nygren (ef), Genz (ef) 65.1 0-5 47-53 Ht 18: Briggs, Newton, Byford, Cornell 64.8 3-3 50-56 |
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| Peter Craven | 3 - 3 3 3 3 | 15 | Trevor Redmond | 2 2 2 2 3 3 | 14 | ||||
| Frank Johnson | 0 2 2' 1 1 1 | 7+1 | Fred van Zyl | 1' 0 1' 0 1 2' | 5+3 | ||||
| Olle Nygren | f ret 3 3 3 ef | 9 | Barry Briggs | 2 3 3 2 2 3 | 15 | ||||
| Ronnie Genz | 3 f - 1 0 ef | 4 | Howdy Cornell | 1' 1 1 0 0 0 | 3+1 | ||||
| Howdy Byford | 1 1 2 1' 2 1' | 8+2 | Ray Cresp | 3 3 1 3 2 2 | 14 | ||||
| Dennis Newton | 0 3 0 2 0 2 | 7 | Trevor Blokdyk | 2' 2' 0 0 1' 0 | 5+3 | ||||
| Jim Scott | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Ht 1:
Craven, Redmond, van Zyl, Johnson 60.5 (track record) 3-3 3-3 Ht 2: Genz, Briggs, Cornell, Nygren (f) 63.1 3-3 6-6 Ht 3: Cresp, Blokdyk, Byford, Newton 64.0 1-5 7-11 Ht 4: Briggs, Johnson, Cornell, Craven (ns) 64.1 2-4 9-15 |
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| 3rd Test at Pretoria - which colour programme would you like? |
| Contributors : Ken MacLeod, Roger Stevens, David Austin |
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