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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 - 1951 (1951) · Lord's, London · 21 June 1951 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 10 wickets

England won by 10 wickets. Denis Compton top-scored with 79 for England.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1951 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

England, 294 (10 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	lbw	12	0
Jack Ikin	bowled	51	0
Reg Simpson	lbw	26	0
Denis Compton	lbw	79	0
Willie Watson	caught (Cuan McCarthy)	79	0
Freddie Brown	bowled	1	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (George Fullerton)	0	0
Johnny Wardle	lbw	18	0
Alec Bedser	not out	26	0
Brian Statham	bowled	1	0
Roy Tattersall	bowled	1	0

Cuan McCarthy 23.00-2-76-4Geoff Chubb 34.40-9-77-5Athol Rowan 13.00-1-63-0Tufty Mann 32.00-12-51-1Clive van Ryneveld 5.00-0-27-0

South Africa, 112 (10 wkts)

Eric Rowan	caught (Jack Ikin)	24	0
John Waite	caught (Leonard Hutton)	15	0
Jackie McGlew	caught (Godfrey Evans)	3	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Willie Watson)	20	0
Jack Cheetham	caught (Leonard Hutton)	15	0
George Fullerton	bowled	12	0
Clive van Ryneveld	lbw	0	0
Athol Rowan	caught (Jack Ikin)	3	0
Tufty Mann	caught (Freddie Brown)	14	0
Geoff Chubb	caught (Roy Tattersall)	5	0
Cuan McCarthy	not out	1	0

Alec Bedser 8.00-5-7-0Brian Statham 6.00-3-7-0Roy Tattersall 28.00-10-52-7Johnny Wardle 22.50-10-46-3

South Africa, 192 (10 wkts)

Eric Rowan	caught (Jack Ikin)	10	0
John Waite	caught (Denis Compton)	17	0
Jackie McGlew	bowled	2	0
Dudley Nourse	lbw	3	0
Jack Cheetham	bowled	54	0
George Fullerton	lbw	60	0
Clive van Ryneveld	caught (Jack Ikin)	18	0
Athol Rowan	caught (Freddie Brown)	10	0
Tufty Mann	caught (Freddie Brown)	13	0
Geoff Chubb	bowled	3	0
Cuan McCarthy	not out	2	0

Alec Bedser 24.00-8-53-2Brian Statham 18.00-6-33-2Roy Tattersall 32.20-14-49-5Johnny Wardle 20.00-5-44-1Denis Compton 2.00-0-13-0

England, 16 (0 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	not out	12	14
Jack Ikin	not out	4	9
Reg Simpson	did not bat	0	0
Denis Compton	did not bat	0	0
Willie Watson	did not bat	0	0
Freddie Brown	did not bat	0	0
Godfrey Evans	did not bat	0	0
Johnny Wardle	did not bat	0	0
Alec Bedser	did not bat	0	0
Brian Statham	did not bat	0	0
Roy Tattersall	did not bat	0	0

Dudley Nourse 2.00-0-9-0Eric Rowan 1.50-0-7-0

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