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The Follow-On Rule, Explained— What the follow-on is, when a captain can enforce it, and how the margin has changed since cricket's first Test in 1877.
How CricArcade Decides a Single Delivery— The geometric-mean matchup at the heart of every engine: how a batter's numbers and a bowler's become a run and a wicket probability, then a result.
How a Test Pitch Plays— Green tops, dustbowls and roads: 60-plus real venues, per-match pitch preparation, wear over five days, the new ball and the sessions in The Follow-On.
The Six Eras of Test Cricket— From the three-day Golden Age to the DRS era: six periods of Test cricket, each calibrated to the real match record, and two findings that surprised us.
Test Captaincy: Declarations, the Follow-On and Reviews— When to bat first, when to declare, whether to enforce the follow-on and when to burn a review, and how The Follow-On's AI captain weighs each call.
Settling In, and the Myth of the Nervous Nineties— A new batter is most vulnerable early, and the nervous nineties turn out to be a myth. How CricArcade models both, measured from real Test data.
How to Read a Cricket Scorecard— A plain-English guide to the batting card, bowling figures, extras, fall of wickets and the result line, with what every abbreviation actually means.

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Australia v South Africa 1st Test

South Africa tour of Australia - 1931 (1931/32) · Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane · 27 November 1931 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by an innings and 163 runs

Australia won by an innings and 163 runs. Donald Bradman top-scored with 226 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1931 TESTS Brisbane Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 442 (10 wkts)

Bill Woodfull	lbw	76	0
Bill Ponsford	caught (Bruce Mitchell)	19	0
Donald Bradman	lbw	226	0
Alan Kippax	caught (Jock Cameron)	1	0
Stan McCabe	caught (Cyril Vincent)	27	0
Jack Nitschke	caught (Jock Cameron)	6	0
Ron Oxenham	bowled	1	0
Bert Oldfield	not out	56	0
Clarrie Grimmett	bowled	14	0
Tim Wall	lbw	14	0
Bert Ironmonger	bowled	2	0

Sandy Bell 42.00-5-120-4Denys Morkel 13.00-1-57-1Neville Quinn 38.30-6-113-2Cyril Vincent 34.00-0-100-3Quintin McMillan 10.00-0-52-0

South Africa, 164 (10 wkts)

Jim Christy	bowled	24	0
Syd Curnow	bowled	11	0
Bruce Mitchell	run out	58	0
Jock Cameron	stumping (Bert Oldfield)	4	0
Herbie Taylor	bowled	41	0
Eric Dalton	caught (Bert Ironmonger)	11	0
Quintin McMillan	caught (Ron Oxenham)	0	0
Denys Morkel	caught (Stan McCabe)	3	0
Cyril Vincent	caught (Jack Nitschke)	10	0
Neville Quinn	caught	1	0
Sandy Bell	not out	1	0

Tim Wall 28.00-14-39-2Stan McCabe 11.00-4-16-0Clarrie Grimmett 41.10-21-49-2Bert Ironmonger 47.00-29-42-5Ron Oxenham 11.00-5-18-0

South Africa, 103 (10 wkts)

Jim Christy	caught (Stan McCabe)	15	0
Syd Curnow	bowled	8	0
Bruce Mitchell	bowled	0	0
Jock Cameron	bowled	21	0
Herbie Taylor	caught (Ron Oxenham)	47	0
Eric Dalton	bowled	6	0
Denys Morkel	bowled	5	0
Quintin McMillan	caught (Jack Nitschke)	0	1
Cyril Vincent	caught	1	0
Neville Quinn	caught (Stan McCabe)	0	1
Sandy Bell	not out	0	0

Tim Wall 15.10-7-14-5Bert Ironmonger 30.00-16-44-4Clarrie Grimmett 15.00-3-45-1

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