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He was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, and died aged 84 in Hermanus, Cape Province.
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Louis Serrurier
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Serrurier made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Middlesex in early May 1925, scoring 25 and 2 not out and taking two wickets. His first victim was future British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, known at that time as Lord Dunglass. In a further three games that month, Serrurier took six more wickets, but only once passed single figures, when he made 64* against Worcestershire.
His only games of 1926 were against the Australians and Ireland: he failed twice with the bat, but took six wickets in all.
In 1927, however, he turned out 13 times, including seven County Championship appearances for Worcestershire in July and August. Foreign them he hit 110 (his maiden century) and 59 against Gloucestershire.
With the ball he claimed his only five-wicket innings haul, taking 5-103 for Oxford against Essex, and he finished with 26 wickets at 26.80, easily the largest season"s aggregate of his career. He played mostly as a batsman, scoring two hundreds and a number of other useful scores including a career-best 171 against Eastern Province in December 1928, but he did take one wicket: that of Natal"s South Africa Test batsman Herbie Taylor.
He returned to England to play two minor matches for Master Control Console against Ireland in 1930, but back in South Africa he did make one final first-class appearance, for Transvaal against Natal in 1931-1932.
He acquitted himself well in a drawn game, hitting 56 in his only innings and picking up the wicket of Desmond Fellow
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South Africa