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 4th Test

England tour of South Africa - 1938 (1938/39) · Old Wanderers, Johannesburg · 18 February 1939 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Leonard Hutton top-scored with 92 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1939 TESTS Old Wanderers ARCHIVE

England, 214 (10 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	bowled	92	0
Paul Gibb	caught (Bruce Mitchell)	9	0
Eddie Paynter	caught (Bob Newson)	40	0
Wally Hammond	caught (Bob Newson)	1	0
Les Ames	bowled	34	0
Bryan Valentine	caught (Ronnie Grieveson)	11	0
Bill Edrich	lbw	6	0
Hedley Verity	caught (Eric Rowan)	8	0
Ken Farnes	caught (Ronnie Grieveson)	4	0
Tom Goddard	caught (Pieter van der Bijl)	8	0
Len Wilkinson	not out	1	0

Bob Newson 13.00-0-53-1Chud Langton 19.20-1-58-5Norman Gordon 15.00-1-47-2Bruce Mitchell 12.00-3-37-2Eric Dalton 5.00-0-19-0

South Africa, 331 (8 wkts)

Pieter van der Bijl	lbw	31	0
Alan Melville	caught (Hedley Verity)	67	0
Eric Rowan	bowled	85	0
Bruce Mitchell	caught (Les Ames)	63	0
Dudley Nourse	hitwicket	38	0
Chud Langton	caught (Leonard Hutton)	6	0
Eric Dalton	not out	20	0
Bob Newson	bowled	16	0
Ken Viljoen	lbw	5	0
Ronnie Grieveson	did not bat	0	0
Norman Gordon	did not bat	0	0

Ken Farnes 26.00-7-64-2Bill Edrich 4.00-0-11-0Hedley Verity 37.50-10-127-3Tom Goddard 18.00-2-65-1Len Wilkinson 9.00-0-45-1Wally Hammond 7.00-1-19-1

England, 195 (4 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	caught (Ronnie Grieveson)	32	0
Paul Gibb	caught (Ronnie Grieveson)	45	0
Eddie Paynter	caught (Ronnie Grieveson)	15	0
Wally Hammond	not out	61	0
Les Ames	bowled	17	0
Bryan Valentine	not out	25	0
Bill Edrich	did not bat	0	0
Hedley Verity	did not bat	0	0
Ken Farnes	did not bat	0	0
Tom Goddard	did not bat	0	0
Len Wilkinson	did not bat	0	0

Bob Newson 11.00-2-22-1Chud Langton 12.00-1-49-0Norman Gordon 22.00-4-58-3Bruce Mitchell 12.00-1-42-0Eric Dalton 3.00-0-24-0

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