Rose-Innes opened the batting and scored 0 and 13 and took 5 wickets for 43 runs in England's first innings[3] of that match and he was selected for the second Test, played at Cape Town two weeks later.

Rose-Innes again opened the batting and this time made 1 and 0; in the second innings he was run out without facing a ball.

[6] Like so many of his countrymen from the earliest days of South African cricket, Rose-Innes' death went unrecorded and therefore no obituary appeared in Wisden at the time.

He retired early from his job in a shipping office, and with his wife, Margaret, went to live in a pair of rondavel mud huts overlooking the mouth of the Quinera River at Bonza Bay, on the outskirts of East London, where they raised their son.

[7] Rose-Innes married Margaret Evelyn Foster (born 1885, Wells, Somerset, England and died 1991 in Johannesburg, South Africa).