10 greatest South African cricketers of all time

#6.Dudley Nourse

At the age of forty, Dudley Nourse came to the crease against England in 1951 at Nottingham with a broken right thumb and batted for nine hours.

Those nine hours were full of terrible pain and tremendous grit and when the ordeal came to an end, Nourse had scored the first double-hundred by a South African against England and had also laid the foundation of South Africa's first Test win for 16 years.

That innings at Nottingham saw the best of Nourse who was a master of the art of batting.

In his 34 Test appearances, Nourse slammed nine Test hundreds and amassed 2960 runs. His average of 53.81 reflect his batting ability and he also captained the Proteas team from 1948 to 1951.