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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 England 2nd Test

England tour of South Africa - 1889 (1888/89) · Newlands, Cape Town · 25 March 1889 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by an innings and 202 runs

England won by an innings and 202 runs. Bobby Abel top-scored with 120 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1889 TESTS Newlands ARCHIVE

England, 280 (10 wkts)

Bobby Abel	bowled	120	241
George Ulyett	bowled	22	37
Johnny Briggs	bowled	6	17
Maurice Read	caught (Philip Hutchinson)	12	22
Frank Hearne	bowled	20	24
Henry Wood	caught (Albert Rose-Innes)	59	89
Monty Bowden	caught (Philip Hutchinson)	25	16
Basil Grieve	caught (Bernard Tancred)	14	36
Emile McMaster	caught (Albert Rose-Innes)	0	1
The Hon. Charles Coventry	not out	1	5
Arnold Fothergill	bowled	1	5

Nicolaas Theunissen 20.00-5-51-0Albert Rose-Innes 12.00-3-30-0Gobo Ashley 43.10-18-95-7Charles Vintcent 42.00-9-88-3William Milton 6.00-2-16-0

South Africa, 43 (10 wkts)

Albert Rose-Innes	lbw	1	23
Bernard Tancred	not out	26	91
Arthur Ochse	run out	1	2
Philip Hutchinson	bowled	3	16
Owen Dunell	bowled	0	1
William Milton	bowled	7	20
Dicky Richards	caught (Bobby Abel)	0	14
Charles Vintcent	bowled	4	11
Fred Smith	bowled	0	1
Nicolaas Theunissen	lbw	0	2
Gobo Ashley	bowled	1	8

Arnold Fothergill 24.00-12-26-2George Ulyett 4.00-4-0-0Johnny Briggs 19.10-11-17-7

South Africa, 41 (10 wkts)

Bernard Tancred	bowled	3	21
Albert Rose-Innes	run out	0	0
Arthur Ochse	bowled	3	5
Philip Hutchinson	bowled	0	8
Owen Dunell	bowled	5	13
William Milton	bowled	4	6
Dicky Richards	bowled	4	4
Charles Vintcent	bowled	9	27
Fred Smith	bowled	11	28
Nicolaas Theunissen	not out	2	3
Gobo Ashley	bowled	0	1

Johnny Briggs 14.20-5-11-8Arnold Fothergill 14.00-4-30-1

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