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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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England v South Africa 2nd Test

South Africa tour of England - 1907 (1907) · Headingley, Leeds · 29 July 1907 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 53 runs

England won by 53 runs. C.B. Fry top-scored with 54 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1907 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

England, 72 (10 wkts)

Tom Hayward	stumping (Percy Sherwell)	24	0
C.B. Fry	bowled	2	0
Johnny Tyldesley	bowled	12	0
Tip Foster	bowled	0	0
Len Braund	lbw	1	0
George Hirst	caught (Maitland Hathorn)	17	0
Gilbert Jessop	caught (Percy Sherwell)	0	2
Ted Arnold	bowled	0	0
Dick Lilley	caught (Reggie Schwarz)	3	0
Colin Blythe	not out	5	0
Neville Knox	caught (Aubrey Faulkner)	8	0

Bert Vogler 8.00-3-14-1Reggie Schwarz 7.00-0-18-0Aubrey Faulkner 11.00-4-17-6Jimmy Sinclair 10.30-2-23-3

South Africa, 105 (10 wkts)

Louis Tancred	stumping (Dick Lilley)	0	0
Percy Sherwell	lbw	26	0
Maitland Hathorn	caught (Dick Lilley)	0	0
Dave Nourse	caught (Ted Arnold)	18	0
Gordon White	caught (George Hirst)	3	0
Jimmy Sinclair	stumping (Dick Lilley)	2	0
Aubrey Faulkner	caught (Len Braund)	6	0
Tip Snooke	caught (Dick Lilley)	13	0
William Shalders	caught (C.B. Fry)	21	0
Bert Vogler	caught (Tom Hayward)	11	0
Reggie Schwarz	not out	5	0

George Hirst 9.00-3-22-1Colin Blythe 15.50-1-59-8Ted Arnold 4.00-1-11-0Neville Knox 3.00-0-13-1

England, 154 (10 wkts)

Tom Hayward	stumping (Percy Sherwell)	15	0
C.B. Fry	lbw	54	0
Johnny Tyldesley	caught (Tip Snooke)	30	0
Tip Foster	lbw	22	0
Len Braund	caught (Reggie Schwarz)	0	0
George Hirst	bowled	2	0
Gilbert Jessop	caught (Maitland Hathorn)	10	8
Ted Arnold	caught (Reggie Schwarz)	12	0
Dick Lilley	lbw	0	0
Colin Blythe	not out	4	0
Neville Knox	run out	5	0

Bert Vogler 4.00-0-18-1Reggie Schwarz 5.40-0-18-1Aubrey Faulkner 20.00-3-58-3Jimmy Sinclair 4.00-0-13-0Gordon White 16.00-3-47-4

South Africa, 71 (10 wkts)

Louis Tancred	run out	0	0
Percy Sherwell	caught (Tip Foster)	1	0
Maitland Hathorn	bowled	7	0
Dave Nourse	lbw	2	0
Gordon White	caught (Ted Arnold)	7	0
Aubrey Faulkner	caught (Tip Foster)	11	0
Jimmy Sinclair	caught (Len Braund)	15	0
Tip Snooke	caught (George Hirst)	14	0
William Shalders	lbw	5	0
Bert Vogler	caught (Johnny Tyldesley)	9	0
Reggie Schwarz	not out	0	0

Colin Blythe 22.40-9-40-7Ted Arnold 13.00-7-10-1George Hirst 9.00-2-21-1

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