GUIDES

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 - 1957 (1957/58) · Kingsmead, Durban · 24 January 1958 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. John Waite top-scored with 134 for South Africa.

Australia ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1958 TESTS Kingsmead ARCHIVE

Australia, 156 (10 wkts)

Colin McDonald	caught (Trevor Goddard)	28	0
Jim Burke	caught (John Waite)	2	0
Neil Harvey	caught (John Waite)	6	0
Ian Craig	bowled	52	0
Bob Simpson	bowled	17	0
Ken Mackay	hitwicket	32	0
Richie Benaud	lbw	5	0
Alan Davidson	caught (John Waite)	12	0
Wally Grout	bowled	2	0
Lindsay Kline	caught (Trevor Goddard)	0	0
Ron Gaunt	not out	0	0

Peter Heine 17.40-4-30-2Neil Adcock 18.00-2-43-6Trevor Goddard 23.00-12-25-2Hugh Tayfield 21.00-7-41-0Clive van Ryneveld 3.00-0-17-0

South Africa, 376 (10 wkts)

Jackie McGlew	caught (Wally Grout)	105	0
Dick Westcott	bowled	0	0
Russell Endean	caught (Bob Simpson)	15	0
John Waite	bowled	134	0
Trevor Goddard	lbw	45	0
Ken Funston	caught (Wally Grout)	27	0
Clive van Ryneveld	not out	32	0
Roy McLean	caught (Wally Grout)	11	0
Hugh Tayfield	stumping (Wally Grout)	0	0
Peter Heine	caught (Jim Burke)	7	0
Neil Adcock	caught (Wally Grout)	0	0

Alan Davidson 34.00-8-62-2Ron Gaunt 27.00-2-87-2Ken Mackay 35.00-5-77-1Richie Benaud 50.70-13-114-5Lindsay Kline 17.00-6-36-0

Australia, 267 (7 wkts)

Colin McDonald	lbw	33	0
Jim Burke	bowled	83	0
Neil Harvey	bowled	68	0
Ian Craig	caught (Trevor Goddard)	0	0
Ken Mackay	not out	52	0
Richie Benaud	bowled	20	0
Alan Davidson	caught (Jackie McGlew)	4	0
Bob Simpson	caught (Hugh Tayfield)	4	0
Wally Grout	not out	3	0
Lindsay Kline	did not bat	0	0
Ron Gaunt	did not bat	0	0

Peter Heine 14.00-1-40-0Neil Adcock 15.00-1-34-1Trevor Goddard 42.00-18-62-1Hugh Tayfield 59.00-24-94-3Clive van Ryneveld 17.00-1-37-2

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