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 3rd Test

England tour of South Africa - 1938 (1938/39) · Kingsmead, Durban · 20 January 1939 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by an innings and 13 runs

England won by an innings and 13 runs. Eddie Paynter top-scored with 243 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1939 TESTS Kingsmead ARCHIVE

England, 459 (4 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	lbw	31	0
Paul Gibb	caught (Billy Wade)	38	0
Eddie Paynter	caught (Alan Melville)	243	0
Wally Hammond	caught (Bruce Mitchell)	120	0
Les Ames	not out	27	0
Bill Edrich	did not bat	0	0
Bryan Valentine	did not bat	0	0
Hedley Verity	did not bat	0	0
Doug Wright	did not bat	0	0
Ken Farnes	did not bat	0	0
Len Wilkinson	did not bat	0	0

Eric Davies 15.00-0-106-1Chud Langton 23.50-0-107-1Norman Gordon 29.00-0-127-2Bruce Mitchell 8.00-0-45-0Eric Dalton 13.00-0-74-0

South Africa, 98 (10 wkts)

Bruce Mitchell	caught (Les Ames)	30	0
Pieter van der Bijl	run out	28	0
Eric Rowan	lbw	4	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Wally Hammond)	0	0
Ken Viljoen	caught (Wally Hammond)	2	0
Eric Dalton	bowled	12	0
Billy Wade	caught (Wally Hammond)	14	0
Alan Melville	not out	5	0
Chud Langton	caught (Leonard Hutton)	0	1
Norman Gordon	bowled	1	0
Eric Davies	lbw	2	0

Ken Farnes 13.00-1-29-4Wally Hammond 2.00-1-2-0Doug Wright 12.00-1-37-2Hedley Verity 8.00-4-9-0Bill Edrich 4.00-0-9-1Len Wilkinson 6.50-2-12-2

South Africa, 337 (10 wkts)

Bruce Mitchell	caught (Les Ames)	109	0
Pieter van der Bijl	bowled	13	0
Eric Rowan	caught (Les Ames)	67	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Les Ames)	27	0
Ken Viljoen	caught (Wally Hammond)	61	0
Alan Melville	bowled	10	0
Eric Dalton	caught (Wally Hammond)	8	0
Billy Wade	lbw	28	0
Chud Langton	bowled	12	0
Norman Gordon	caught (Bill Edrich)	0	0
Eric Davies	not out	2	0

Ken Farnes 28.20-8-80-3Wally Hammond 3.00-0-11-1Doug Wright 15.00-2-56-0Hedley Verity 35.00-10-71-3Bill Edrich 7.00-2-16-1Len Wilkinson 26.00-4-103-2

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