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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 1st Test

South Africa tour of England - 1935 (1935) · Trent Bridge, Nottingham · 15 June 1935 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Bob Wyatt top-scored with 149 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1935 TESTS Trent Bridge ARCHIVE

England, 371 (7 wkts)

Herbert Sutcliffe	lbw	61	0
Bob Wyatt	caught (Herby Wade)	149	0
Wally Hammond	lbw	28	0
Mandy Mitchell-Innes	lbw	5	0
Maurice Leyland	caught (Bruce Mitchell)	69	0
Les Ames	caught (Ken Viljoen)	17	0
Jack Iddon	caught (Eric Rowan)	29	0
Stan Nichols	not out	13	0
Walter Robins	did not bat	0	0
Hedley Verity	did not bat	0	0
Bill Bowes	did not bat	0	0

Bob Crisp 18.00-4-49-2Chud Langton 39.00-3-117-1Cyril Vincent 43.00-9-101-3Denis Tomlinson 10.00-0-38-0Bruce Mitchell 22.00-1-66-1

South Africa, 204 (10 wkts)

Jack Siedle	bowled	59	0
Bruce Mitchell	bowled	25	0
Eric Rowan	caught (Les Ames)	20	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Wally Hammond)	4	0
Herby Wade	caught (Stan Nichols)	18	0
Jock Cameron	bowled	52	0
Ken Viljoen	bowled	13	0
Cyril Vincent	lbw	0	0
Denis Tomlinson	bowled	9	0
Chud Langton	not out	0	0
Bob Crisp	caught (Walter Robins)	4	0

Bill Bowes 22.00-9-31-0Stan Nichols 23.50-9-35-6Hedley Verity 41.00-18-52-3Walter Robins 19.00-4-65-1Jack Iddon 4.00-2-3-0Maurice Leyland 7.00-2-18-0

South Africa, 16 (1 wkts)

Jack Siedle	caught (Hedley Verity)	2	0
Bruce Mitchell	not out	8	0
Eric Rowan	not out	6	0
Dudley Nourse	did not bat	0	0
Herby Wade	did not bat	0	0
Jock Cameron	did not bat	0	0
Ken Viljoen	did not bat	0	0
Cyril Vincent	did not bat	0	0
Denis Tomlinson	did not bat	0	0
Chud Langton	did not bat	0	0
Bob Crisp	did not bat	0	0

Stan Nichols 5.00-1-14-1Bill Bowes 4.00-3-2-0

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