Richard Evans was a leg-spin and googly bowler who had an exceptional career strike-rate: a wicket every 31.48 deliveries.
In the first match, against Western Province, he took 5 for 72 and 4 for 92, and Border won by seven wickets.
[3] Later, in the victory over Orange Free State, he took 5 for 27 and 2 for 28,[4] and a week after that, in the loss to Transvaal, he took 2 for 29 and 8 for 64.
He died in May 1943 while serving in the South African Air Force, when his Avro Anson stalled and crashed into the sea off Danger Point.
[8] In civilian life he worked as a refrigeration engineer and lived with his wife in East London.