The Cape Colony team won one of its early matches, but all five of the Cape Colony/Province's first-class matches resulted in victories to the English team by wide margins.
On the 1895-96 tour the English team met a provincial team on level terms, 11-a-side, for the first time, when Lord Hawke's XI played Western Province towards the end of the tour.
[8] On the next tour in 1898-99 there were three first-class provincial matches, one against Transvaal and two against Cape Colony.
[9] By the time of England's 1913-14 tour, South African domestic cricket was considered strong enough for all seven of the Currie Cup teams to meet touring teams on level terms in first-class matches.
The Cape Province team played its first match.