League Cricket
In 1957, Fuller came to England to play as a professional in the Lancashire League for Ramsbottom. He took seven wickets for 11 runs in the Lancashire League Worsley Cup Final of 1957 as Ramsbottom dismissed Rawtenstall for just 36 to win the cup easily.
He returned to South Africa for the 1957-58 season and was drafted into the Test side for his seventh, and final, Test match, the second of the 1957-58 series against Australia, because of injury to Heine. In a heavy defeat, he took only two wickets and he was the first victim in a hat-trick by Lindsay Kline which finished the match. The match between Western Province and the Australians towards the end of the tour was Fuller's final appearance in first-class cricket in South Africa.
Fuller went back to Ramsbottom as professional in 1958, and made a single further first-class appearance at the end of the 1958 English cricket season as a member of a Commonwealth XI against an England XI in the festival at Torquay. In 1959, he switched to Rawtenstall for a final season of Lancashire League cricket.
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