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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 4th Test

Australia tour of South Africa - 1935 (1935/36) · Old Wanderers, Johannesburg · 15 February 1936 · South Africa won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by an innings and 184 runs

Australia won by an innings and 184 runs. Jack Fingleton top-scored with 108 for Australia.

South Africa ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1936 TESTS Old Wanderers ARCHIVE

South Africa, 148 (10 wkts)

Jack Siedle	lbw	44	0
Herby Wade	bowled	39	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Bert Oldfield)	3	0
Ken Viljoen	bowled	33	0
Robert Harvey	bowled	5	0
Bruce Mitchell	stumping (Bert Oldfield)	16	0
Chud Langton	lbw	7	0
Nipper Nicholson	bowled	0	0
Buster Nupen	bowled	1	0
Xen Balaskas	lbw	0	0
Eric Davies	not out	0	0

Ernie McCormick 11.00-0-37-2Stan McCabe 5.00-2-21-0Clarrie Grimmett 26.40-6-70-3Bill O'Reilly 21.00-11-20-5

Australia, 434 (10 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	caught (Chud Langton)	108	0
Bill Brown	lbw	34	0
Stan McCabe	bowled	40	0
Leo O'Brien	bowled	59	0
Bert Oldfield	caught (Xen Balaskas)	44	0
Len Darling	caught (Herby Wade)	16	0
Arthur Chipperfield	lbw	39	0
Vic Richardson	bowled	21	0
Clarrie Grimmett	lbw	4	0
Bill O'Reilly	not out	56	0
Ernie McCormick	caught (Bruce Mitchell)	13	0

Eric Davies 24.40-4-75-4Chud Langton 30.00-5-88-1Xen Balaskas 44.00-4-165-4Buster Nupen 14.00-1-53-1Bruce Mitchell 15.00-1-53-0

South Africa, 95 (10 wkts)

Jack Siedle	bowled	0	1
Herby Wade	bowled	2	0
Ken Viljoen	stumping (Bert Oldfield)	7	0
Bruce Mitchell	not out	48	0
Dudley Nourse	bowled	3	0
Robert Harvey	caught (Len Darling)	17	0
Nipper Nicholson	bowled	0	0
Chud Langton	lbw	9	0
Buster Nupen	bowled	6	0
Xen Balaskas	caught (Leo O'Brien)	0	0
Eric Davies	caught (Bert Oldfield)	3	0

Ernie McCormick 12.00-2-28-3Stan McCabe 2.00-1-1-0Clarrie Grimmett 19.50-9-40-7Bill O'Reilly 10.00-3-26-0

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