Later Cricket Career
After this promising start, Coen might have been expected to have a substantial Test career. Instead, in 1928-29 he lost form and made only 64 runs in six innings, which meant he was not picked for the 1929 South African tour to England. He did not play at all in 1929-30 and then in 1930-31 he started playing for Western Province; initially, he had little success, and he was not picked for the next South African Test tour, the 1931-32 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Ironically, while the tour was taking place, Coen had a second season in which he excelled with the bat, making 630 runs at an average of 63. Among his innings in this season was one of 173, his highest, against Transvaal.
At the end of the 1931-32 season, Coen transferred to Transvaal, but he was unable to reproduce his earlier form and in nine games across the next four seasons he passed 50 only twice. He moved again in 1937-38 to play three matches for Border and then returned for a single game to Orange Free State in 1938-39.
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