For the writer see Alan Melville (writer)

Alan Melville (19 May 1910 in Carnarvon, South Africa

Carnarvon, South Africa

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 – 18 April 1983 in Sabie

Sabie

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, Transvaal

Transvaal Province

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) was a South Africa

South Africa

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Cricket

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er who played in 11 Tests

Test cricket

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 from 1938 to 1949. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year (1948).

The South African cricket team toured England in 1947. At Nottingham, Melville, Captain and vice-captain, Dudley Nourse

Dudley Nourse

Arthur Dudley Nourse was a South African Test cricketer and batsmanThe son of batsman Arthur Nourse, Nourse played 34 Test matches in a long career of sixteen years...

achieved a Test match record for a third wicket partnership of 319.