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 England 2nd Test

England tour of South Africa - 1938 (1938/39) · Newlands, Cape Town · 31 December 1938 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Wally Hammond top-scored with 181 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1938 TESTS Newlands ARCHIVE

England, 547 (9 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	bowled	17	0
Paul Gibb	caught (Billy Wade)	58	0
Eddie Paynter	lbw	1	0
Wally Hammond	bowled	181	0
Les Ames	bowled	115	0
Bill Edrich	bowled	0	0
Bryan Valentine	lbw	112	0
Hedley Verity	bowled	29	0
Doug Wright	caught (Dudley Nourse)	33	0
Ken Farnes	not out	1	0
Tom Goddard	did not bat	0	0

Eric Davies 16.00-1-77-1Chud Langton 30.70-3-117-3Norman Gordon 40.00-3-157-5Xen Balaskas 24.00-0-115-0Bruce Mitchell 20.00-0-81-0

South Africa, 269 (10 wkts)

Bruce Mitchell	bowled	42	0
Pieter van der Bijl	caught (Bryan Valentine)	37	0
Eric Rowan	bowled	6	0
Dudley Nourse	lbw	120	0
Dooley Briscoe	lbw	2	0
Billy Wade	caught (Bill Edrich)	10	0
Chud Langton	lbw	0	0
Xen Balaskas	caught (Eddie Paynter)	29	0
Alan Melville	bowled	23	0
Norman Gordon	stumping (Les Ames)	0	0
Eric Davies	not out	0	0

Ken Farnes 13.00-3-37-0Bill Edrich 5.00-1-15-0Tom Goddard 38.00-15-64-3Doug Wright 26.00-3-83-2Hedley Verity 36.60-13-70-5

South Africa, 196 (2 wkts)

Bruce Mitchell	caught (Les Ames)	1	0
Pieter van der Bijl	hitwicket	87	0
Eric Rowan	not out	89	0
Dudley Nourse	not out	19	0
Dooley Briscoe	did not bat	0	0
Billy Wade	did not bat	0	0
Chud Langton	did not bat	0	0
Xen Balaskas	did not bat	0	0
Alan Melville	did not bat	0	0
Norman Gordon	did not bat	0	0
Eric Davies	did not bat	0	0

Ken Farnes 8.00-1-23-1Bill Edrich 3.00-1-5-0Tom Goddard 11.00-1-68-1Doug Wright 12.00-0-62-0Hedley Verity 10.00-5-13-0Wally Hammond 9.00-0-25-0

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