Visits had been planned by Griqualand West the previous season, and then by Transvaal, but both were cancelled, so Rhodesia's only outing was a visit to Johannesburg. Lack of regular cricket was taking a heavy toll of the Rhodesian team, for whom another six players were making their debuts. The only one with a notable future was the 16-year-old Percy Mansell, who was already doing wonders in Bulawayo league cricket; his brother Mervyn also played.

The match itself came close to being a complete disaster. Pace bowler Jack Charsley did most to dismiss Transvaal for a moderate score, but the batsmen came horribly unstuck on a turf pitch, when they had played virtually all their previous cricket on matting. Only the two survivors from the team's previous visit to Johannesburg, new captain Jack Hayward and pace bowler Henry Moll, lasted long; Moll joined Hayward with the score a horrendous 19/9, and they added 64 for the last wicket. But this could not avoid the follow-on and the innings defeat, and it would be ten years before Rhodesia would venture south again.