The South African cricket team toured England in the 1924 season to play a five-match Test series against England.

England won the series 3-0 with 2 matches drawn.

The South African team

The tourists, with their ages on the first day of the first match of the tour on 3 May, were:

• Herbie Taylor (captain, 34)
• Mick Commaille (vice-captain, 41)
• George Bissett (18)
• Jimmy Blanckenberg (31)
• Claude Carter (43)
• Bob Catterall (23)
• Nummy Deane (28)
• Cec Dixon (33)
• Philip Hands (34)
• George Hearne (36)
• Doug Meintjes (33)
• Dave Nourse (45)
• Buster Nupen (22)
• Sid Pegler (35)
• Fred Susskind (32)
• Tommy Ward (36)

George Parker (24) also played three first-class matches (including the first two Tests) and Aubrey Faulkner (42) played one match, the Third Test. The manager was George Allsop.^[1]

Test series summary

First Test

14–17 June 1924 (3-day match) Scorecard

England	v	South Africa
438 (124 overs) JB Hobbs 76 GM Parker 6/152 (37 overs)		30 (12.3 overs) HW Taylor 7 AER Gilligan 6/7 (6.3 overs)
		390 (f/o) (143.4 overs) RH Catterall 120 AER Gilligan 5/83 (28 overs)

England won by an innings and 18 runs Edgbaston, Birmingham Umpires: HR Butt and W Reeves

• South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
• 15 June were taken as rest days.
• H Sutcliffe, APF Chapman, R Kilner, MW Tate and GEC Wood (all ENG), and MJ Susskind, HG Deane and GM Parker (all SA) made their Test debuts.
  
• Parker, an expatriate fast bowler from Cape Town then playing for Eccleshill in the Bradford League, was called up to strengthen the South African bowling and responded with six wickets.^[2]
• South Africa's score of 30 at Edgbaston is still the only completed innings in Test match history where no batsman reached double figures.^[3]
• The 75 balls in the South African 2nd innings is still the fewest balls in a completed Test match innings.

Second Test

28 June–1 July 1924 (3-day match) Scorecard

South Africa	v	England
273 (116 overs) RH Catterall 120 RK Tyldesley 3/52 (24 overs)		531/2d (118 overs) JB Hobbs 211 GM Parker 2/121 (24 overs)
240 (123.4 overs) MJ Susskind 53 RK Tyldesley 3/50 (36 overs)

England won by an innings and 18 runs Lord's, London Umpires: F Chester and HI Young

• South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
• 29 June was taken as a rest day.
• RK Tyldesley (ENG) made his Test debut.
  
• The England score of 531-2d is the highest Test innings in which all who batted scored at least a half-century.^[3]
• Parker ended his third and final first-class match as the only South African Test cricketer not to play first-class cricket in his own country.^[4]
• The first of only five occasions where a side has lost only two wickets while winning a Test match.^[5]

Third Test

12–15 July 1924 (3-day match) Scorecard

England	v	South Africa
396 (116 overs) EH Hendren 132 SJ Pegler 4/116 (35 overs)		132 (51.3 overs) HW Taylor 59* MW Tate 6/42 (17 overs)
60/1 (22.2 overs) H Sutcliffe 29* J Blanckenberg 1/23 (10 overs)		323 (f/o) (127 overs) HW Taylor 56 RH Catterall 56 RK Tyldesley 3/63 (24 overs)

England won by 9 wickets Headingley, Leeds Umpires: W Reeves and AE Street

• England won the toss and elected to bat.
• 13 July was taken as a rest day.

Fourth Test

26–29 July 1924 (3-day match) Scorecard

South Africa	v	England
116/4 (66.5 overs) TA Ward 50 MW Tate 3/34 (24 overs)

Match drawn Old Trafford, Manchester Umpires: HR Butt and AE Street

• South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
• 27 July was taken as a rest day.
• There was no play on the second or third days.
• JCW MacBryan, G Geary and G Duckworth (all ENG) made their Test debuts.

Fifth Test

16–19 August 1924 (3-day match) Scorecard

South Africa	v	England
342 (124 overs) RH Catterall 95 MW Tate 3/64 (29 overs)		421/8 (131 overs) EH Hendren 142 CP Carter 3/85 (23 overs)

Match drawn The Oval, London Umpires: HR Butt and F Chester

• South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
• 17 August was taken as a rest day.