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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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South Africa v Australia 3rd Test

Australia tour of South Africa - 1935 (1935/36) · Newlands, Cape Town · 1 January 1936 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by an innings and 78 runs

Australia won by an innings and 78 runs. Bill Brown top-scored with 121 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1936 TESTS Newlands ARCHIVE

Australia, 344 (8 wkts)

Bill Brown	caught (Jack Robertson)	121	0
Jack Fingleton	caught (Herby Wade)	112	0
Stan McCabe	caught (Xen Balaskas)	0	0
Len Darling	lbw	12	0
Vic Richardson	lbw	14	0
Arthur Chipperfield	bowled	30	0
Bert Oldfield	bowled	8	0
Clarrie Grimmett	not out	30	0
Bill O'Reilly	bowled	17	0
Ernie McCormick	not out	0	0
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	did not bat	0	0

Bob Crisp 14.00-2-30-1Chud Langton 30.00-2-94-1Jack Robertson 29.00-8-75-2Xen Balaskas 38.00-1-126-4Bruce Mitchell 4.00-0-19-0

South Africa, 89 (10 wkts)

Jack Siedle	lbw	1	0
Herby Wade	caught (Stan McCabe)	0	0
Eric Rowan	bowled	12	0
Bruce Mitchell	caught (Jack Fingleton)	14	0
Ken Viljoen	stumping (Bert Oldfield)	14	0
Dudley Nourse	not out	44	0
Nipper Nicholson	bowled	0	0
Chud Langton	bowled	3	0
Bob Crisp	bowled	0	0
Xen Balaskas	bowled	0	0
Jack Robertson	run out	1	0

Ernie McCormick 2.00-1-3-0Stan McCabe 2.00-1-9-1Bill O'Reilly 11.00-4-24-1Clarrie Grimmett 17.00-4-32-5Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 6.20-0-21-2

South Africa, 179 (10 wkts)

Jack Siedle	bowled	59	0
Herby Wade	lbw	31	0
Eric Rowan	caught (Vic Richardson)	19	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Clarrie Grimmett)	25	0
Bruce Mitchell	bowled	0	0
Ken Viljoen	caught (Bill O'Reilly)	23	0
Nipper Nicholson	caught (Bill O'Reilly)	4	0
Chud Langton	bowled	4	0
Bob Crisp	caught (Vic Richardson)	0	0
Jack Robertson	not out	12	0
Xen Balaskas	bowled	2	0

Ernie McCormick 2.00-0-8-0Bill O'Reilly 25.00-15-35-4Clarrie Grimmett 36.40-17-56-5Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 24.00-4-80-1

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