Arthur Lennox Ochse

Who was Arthur Lennox Ochse?

Arthur Lennox Ochse was a South African cricketer who played in three Tests in 1927–28 and 1929.

Ochse was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He played intermittently and sometimes effectively for Eastern Province from 1921–22 to the end of the 1920s and then reappeared in two further domestic seasons in 1931–32 and 1937–38. He first came to notice by taking the last six wickets for 60 runs in a heavy defeat of Orange Free State in 1924–25. In 1927–28, when an English team toured, he was picked for a South African XI in a non-Test first-class match against the touring team and took three wickets. That performance did not get him into the Test team, but when Eastern Province played a first-class match with MCC in early January, Ochse took five wickets for 31 runs as the tourists were dismissed in their first innings for just 49; they recovered to win the match by 10 wickets courtesy of an unbroken second-innings opening stand of 187. South Africa had lost the first two Tests of the series, and Ochse was called into the side for the third match.