In the winter of 1927/28, MCC sent a cricket team to South Africa; the team, "Wisden" noted, was scarcely representative of top-class English cricket, since Jack Hobbs, Patsy Hendren, Maurice Tate, Harold Larwood and several prominent amateurs were either not selected or declined to go. Legge was one of half a dozen amateur players, and equalled his then-highest score when he made 120 against Orange Free State. That and other decent scores in first-class matches led to his selection for the first Test, but he failed to score in his only innings, being one of eight England batsmen who contributed only 13 runs between them to a match-winning score of 313. He lost his place for the next match in the series and did not regain it.