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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England v South Africa 2nd Test

South Africa tour of England - 1994 (1994) · Headingley, Leeds · 4 August 1994 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Peter Kirsten

Match drawn. Graeme Hick top-scored with 110 for England. Man of the Match: Peter Kirsten.

England ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1994 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

England, 459 (9 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Brian McMillan)	23	40
Mike Atherton	caught (Brian McMillan)	99	224
Graeme Hick	caught (Brian McMillan)	25	61
Graham Thorpe	caught (Jonty Rhodes)	72	112
Alec Stewart	bowled	89	171
John Crawley	lbw	38	113
Steve Rhodes	not out	65	144
Phil DeFreitas	bowled	15	34
Darren Gough	run out	27	60
Angus Fraser	caught (Hansie Cronje)	6	18
Phil Tufnell	did not bat	0	0

Allan Donald 29.00-2-135-1Fanie de Villiers 39.30-12-108-3Craig Matthews 39.00-7-97-1Brian McMillan 37.00-12-93-3Hansie Cronje 16.00-3-38-0

South Africa, 419 (10 wkts)

Andrew Hudson	caught (Mike Atherton)	9	19
Gary Kirsten	caught (Steve Rhodes)	7	21
David Richardson	bowled	48	73
Hansie Cronje	bowled	0	1
Kepler Wessels	caught (John Crawley)	25	66
Peter Kirsten	caught (Alec Stewart)	104	226
Jonty Rhodes	caught (Steve Rhodes)	46	97
Brian McMillan	bowled	78	140
Craig Matthews	not out	62	100
Fanie de Villiers	stumping (Steve Rhodes)	13	23
Allan Donald	caught (John Crawley)	27	47

Darren Gough 37.00-3-153-2Phil DeFreitas 29.10-6-89-4Angus Fraser 31.00-5-92-2Phil Tufnell 32.00-13-81-2Graham Gooch 3.00-0-9-0Graeme Hick 1.00-0-8-0

England, 263 (5 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (David Richardson)	27	77
Mike Atherton	caught (Daryll Cullinan)	17	42
Graeme Hick	lbw	110	192
Graham Thorpe	run out	73	125
Alec Stewart	not out	36	36
John Crawley	caught (Hansie Cronje)	0	2
Steve Rhodes	did not bat	0	0
Phil DeFreitas	did not bat	0	0
Darren Gough	did not bat	0	0
Angus Fraser	did not bat	0	0
Phil Tufnell	did not bat	0	0

Fanie de Villiers 25.00-3-98-1Brian McMillan 15.30-0-66-2Craig Matthews 24.00-8-53-1Gary Kirsten 2.00-1-10-0Hansie Cronje 12.00-3-39-0

South Africa, 105 (3 wkts)

Andrew Hudson	caught (Phil Tufnell)	12	66
Gary Kirsten	caught (Steve Rhodes)	65	128
Hansie Cronje	not out	13	124
Kepler Wessels	bowled	7	20
Peter Kirsten	not out	8	31
David Richardson	did not bat	0	0
Jonty Rhodes	did not bat	0	0
Brian McMillan	did not bat	0	0
Craig Matthews	did not bat	0	0
Fanie de Villiers	did not bat	0	0
Allan Donald	did not bat	0	0

Phil DeFreitas 14.00-3-41-1Darren Gough 10.00-5-15-0Phil Tufnell 23.00-8-31-2Angus Fraser 7.00-2-19-0Graeme Hick 6.00-3-6-0

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