Jardine was selected to tour Australia with the M.C.C. team in 1928–29 as part of a very strong batting side,[57] playing in all five Test matches and scoring 341 runs at an average of 42.62.[58] In all first-class matches, he scored 1,168 runs (average 64.88).[24] He was also on the five-man selection committee for the tour, which chose teams to play in specific games but had not chosen the touring party.[59] Wisden judged that he had been as great a success as had been expected and impressed everyone with the strength of his defensive shots and his play on the back foot. It said that he played some delightful innings.[60] Percy Fender, covering the tour as a journalist, believed that Jardine never had the chance to play a normal innings in the Test, having to provide the stability to the batting, and often seeming to come out to bat in a crisis.[61]