Most runs across formats by a visiting captain in South Africa

#3 Wally Hammond, England (The M.C.C team in South Africa, 1938-39)

Wally Hammond, a peerless strokemaker coupled with a pristine defense was one of the greatest batsmen of all time, and it was on full show when he led the M.C.C team to the Rainbow nation in 1938-39. The 1938-39 tour to South Africa proved to be a great fillip to the game in the country with huge crowds thronging to grounds in all Test matches as the cricket, especially from England team led by Hammond, was of the pretty high standard.

Hammond at his best was a treat and had an appetite for runs few can boast of and the South Africans learned that the hard way on the tour that helped his team win the 5-match series, the last match being the "Timeless Test" that had prolonged for ten days, with a scoreline of 1-0. The series win was a sweet redemption of their defeat at home by the H.F Wade-led Proteas in the summer of 1935.

Hammond's record of 609 runs stood for nearly 65 years before being broken in 2003-04.