Sir Julien Cahn

Julien Cahn

Sir Julien Cahn, 1st Baronet was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and supporter of cricket.-His cricket XI:...

's cricket team toured Ceylon and Malaya

British Malaya

British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the Island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries...

 in the spring of 1937.

The team played nine games in all but the majority were against minor opposition. The team was quite successful in that it was unbeaten on tour but only won three times with six matches drawn.

The only first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 match on the tour was against a Ceylon national XI at the Nomads Ground in Victoria Park, Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

. Cahn's team won by 6 wickets. Cahn's side included South African Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 players Bob Crisp

Bob Crisp

Robert James Crisp DSO MC was a South African cricketer who played in nine Tests from 1935 to 1936 before living for a while in England. He appeared for Rhodesia, Western Province, Worcestershire and South Africa. Though his Test bowling average lay over 37.00, Crisp had a successful first-class...

 and Denys Morkel

Denys Morkel

Denijs Paul Beck Morkel was a South African cricketer who played for Western Province in 1924 and later in 16 Tests for South Africa from 1927 to 1932....

 and the New Zealander Stewie Dempster, plus other members of Cahn's UK-based teams such as Jack Walsh

Jack Walsh

John Edward "Jack" Walsh, born at Walcha, New South Wales on 4 December 1912 and died at Wallsend, New South Wales on 20 May 1980, was an Australian cricketer who played nearly all of his cricket in England....

 and Tom Reddick.