[2] He returned to the Western Province side as an opening batsman in the 1908–09 Currie Cup competition, scoring 74 in the match against Border.

[4] In the 1909–10 season, an England team toured South Africa, playing its non-Test matches as Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

[18] There were tours to South Africa by Australia in 1921–22 and England in 1922–23, and Commaille played in the Western Province games against both sides, but did not earn a Test recall.

In 1923–24 at the age of 40, he had his best domestic season, with unbeaten centuries against Natal and Griqualand West, and with places still up for grabs on the 1924 tour to England Commaille captained one of two trial sides in an end-of-season match, after which the team was chosen.

Taylor, however, played in every single first-class match on the tour and Commaille's captaincy was restricted to three non-first-class games against Scotland, Durham and a side from North Wales.

[24] Back in South Africa in 1924–25, Commaille switched allegiance from Western Province to Orange Free State and two years later in 1926–27 he made the highest score of his long career, an innings of 186 against Natal in which he shared a second-wicket partnership of 305 with Shunter Coen which remains a Free State first-class record to this day.

[25] In the following match, the same pairing hit off the 236 runs needed for victory over Eastern Province to set the record for the first-wicket partnership that also remains unbeaten.

Commaille, just a few months short of his 44th birthday, made 77 and 54 in the first-class match between Orange Free State and the English team (playing as MCC).

Commaille continued in first-class cricket for a further three seasons, switching teams to Griqualand West in 1929–30 and finally retiring after a single game in 1930–31.