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 New Zealand 5th Test

New Zealand tour of South Africa - 1953 (1953/54) · Crusaders Ground, Gqeberha · 5 February 1954 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

South Africa won by 5 wickets

South Africa won by 5 wickets. Russell Endean top-scored with 87 for South Africa.

New Zealand ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1954 TESTS Crusaders Ground ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 219 (10 wkts)

Frank Mooney	caught (Hugh Tayfield)	24	0
Murray Chapple	caught (John Waite)	18	0
Matt Poore	caught (John Waite)	41	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (John Waite)	38	0
John Reid	bowled	19	0
Lawrie Miller	caught (Russell Endean)	0	0
John Beck	bowled	48	0
Eric Dempster	caught (John Watkins)	16	0
Tony MacGibbon	bowled	7	0
Bob Blair	caught (Anton Murray)	8	0
Bill Bell	not out	0	0

Neil Adcock 19.00-1-86-4John Watkins 16.00-6-34-4Hugh Tayfield 29.30-15-35-1Clive van Ryneveld 7.00-1-15-0Anton Murray 21.00-4-49-1

South Africa, 227 (10 wkts)

Jackie McGlew	bowled	27	0
Dick Westcott	lbw	29	0
Jack Cheetham	caught (Bert Sutcliffe)	42	0
Ken Funston	lbw	10	0
Russell Endean	caught (John Reid)	32	0
John Watkins	bowled	13	0
Clive van Ryneveld	lbw	40	0
John Waite	not out	20	0
Hugh Tayfield	caught (Bert Sutcliffe)	2	0
Anton Murray	lbw	7	0
Neil Adcock	bowled	5	0

Bob Blair 16.00-4-39-2Tony MacGibbon 22.10-2-55-3John Reid 32.00-16-51-4Bill Bell 28.00-6-82-1

New Zealand, 218 (10 wkts)

Frank Mooney	caught (Clive van Ryneveld)	9	0
Murray Chapple	lbw	8	0
Matt Poore	caught (John Waite)	18	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (Clive van Ryneveld)	52	0
John Reid	run out	73	0
John Beck	bowled	12	0
Eric Dempster	stumping (John Waite)	1	0
Tony MacGibbon	caught (Neil Adcock)	14	0
Lawrie Miller	caught (John Waite)	2	0
Bob Blair	stumping (John Waite)	8	0
Bill Bell	not out	21	0

Neil Adcock 19.00-1-45-2John Watkins 14.00-6-21-1Hugh Tayfield 17.00-5-51-1Clive van Ryneveld 20.60-1-67-4Anton Murray 17.00-7-34-1

South Africa, 204 (5 wkts)

Jackie McGlew	run out	38	0
Dick Westcott	bowled	11	0
Ken Funston	caught (Frank Mooney)	0	0
Russell Endean	caught (Bill Bell)	87	0
John Watkins	bowled	45	0
Clive van Ryneveld	not out	10	0
Jack Cheetham	not out	13	0
John Waite	did not bat	0	0
Hugh Tayfield	did not bat	0	0
Anton Murray	did not bat	0	0
Neil Adcock	did not bat	0	0

Bob Blair 7.00-0-15-0Tony MacGibbon 10.00-0-44-2John Reid 15.00-2-64-1Bill Bell 9.30-0-54-1Eric Dempster 5.00-0-27-0Frank Mooney 1.00-1-0-0

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