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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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South Africa v Australia 2nd Test

Australia tour of South Africa - 1935 (1935/36) · Old Wanderers, Johannesburg · 24 December 1935 · South Africa won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Dudley Nourse top-scored with 231 for South Africa.

South Africa ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1935 TESTS Old Wanderers ARCHIVE

South Africa, 151 (10 wkts)

Bruce Mitchell	caught (Bert Oldfield)	8	0
Jack Siedle	caught (Arthur Chipperfield)	22	0
Eric Rowan	lbw	38	0
Dudley Nourse	bowled	0	0
Dooley Briscoe	bowled	15	0
Herby Wade	bowled	0	0
Chud Langton	caught (Jack Fingleton)	7	0
Nipper Nicholson	stumping (Bert Oldfield)	27	0
Bob Crisp	bowled	8	0
Jack Robertson	bowled	17	0
Ernest Bock	not out	9	0

Ernie McCormick 16.00-5-36-3Bill O'Reilly 20.20-9-54-4Clarrie Grimmett 15.00-5-29-3Stan McCabe 6.00-2-11-0Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 6.00-2-21-0

Australia, 247 (10 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	caught (Chud Langton)	62	0
Bill Brown	caught (Bob Crisp)	51	0
Stan McCabe	caught (Jack Robertson)	34	0
Len Darling	run out	42	0
Vic Richardson	bowled	2	0
Arthur Chipperfield	caught (Eric Rowan)	0	0
Bert Oldfield	caught (Dooley Briscoe)	40	0
Clarrie Grimmett	bowled	7	0
Bill O'Reilly	bowled	0	0
Ernie McCormick	bowled	4	0
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	not out	5	0

Bob Crisp 15.00-1-49-0Chud Langton 32.00-6-85-4Bruce Mitchell 7.30-0-26-4Ernest Bock 14.00-2-49-0Jack Robertson 13.00-0-38-1

South Africa, 454 (10 wkts)

Herby Wade	lbw	30	0
Jack Siedle	bowled	34	0
Eric Rowan	lbw	13	0
Bruce Mitchell	caught (Bert Oldfield)	45	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Ernie McCormick)	231	0
Dooley Briscoe	bowled	16	0
Nipper Nicholson	lbw	29	0
Chud Langton	bowled	16	0
Bob Crisp	bowled	35	0
Jack Robertson	bowled	3	0
Ernest Bock	not out	2	0

Ernie McCormick 26.00-3-129-3Bill O'Reilly 35.30-15-91-1Clarrie Grimmett 58.00-28-111-3Stan McCabe 9.00-1-30-2Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 21.00-5-93-1

Australia, 272 (2 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	bowled	40	0
Bill Brown	caught (Nipper Nicholson)	6	0
Stan McCabe	not out	189	0
Len Darling	not out	37	0
Vic Richardson	did not bat	0	0
Arthur Chipperfield	did not bat	0	0
Bert Oldfield	did not bat	0	0
Clarrie Grimmett	did not bat	0	0
Bill O'Reilly	did not bat	0	0
Ernie McCormick	did not bat	0	0
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	did not bat	0	0

Bob Crisp 17.00-3-62-1Chud Langton 22.00-6-54-0Bruce Mitchell 15.00-1-73-1Ernest Bock 9.00-0-42-0Jack Robertson 13.00-3-41-0

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