Career
He played for Transvaal during the last decade of the 19th Century and appeared in four Test matches for South Africa against England, all of them on home soil. His first Test match was the sole representative affair of England’s visit in 1891-1892, played at Cape Town. He also played in the three-match series of 1895-1896 but in all four Tests he could only manage a top score of 24 (overall average 900) as England showed their dominance, winning each match convincingly.
However, on the day the meeting was held to select South Africa’s inaugural side to tour England in 1894, he made a century in a non-first-class match and secured his place as a result of lieutenant
None of the 24 matches on the tour have yet been given first-class status even though many of them were against first-class county clubs. Number obituary appeared within the Wisden Cricketers" Almanack for Routledge after his death in 1927.
