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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 3rd Test

Australia tour of South Africa - 1949 (1949/50) · Kingsmead, Durban · 20 January 1950 · South Africa won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 5 wickets

Australia won by 5 wickets. Neil Harvey top-scored with 151* for Australia.

South Africa ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1950 TESTS Kingsmead ARCHIVE

South Africa, 299 (10 wkts)

Eric Rowan	caught (Bill Johnston)	143	0
Owen Wynne	bowled	18	0
Jack Nel	caught (Ian Johnson)	14	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Ron Saggers)	66	0
Billy Wade	bowled	24	0
Tufty Mann	bowled	9	0
Jack Cheetham	caught (Lindsay Hassett)	4	0
John Watkins	bowled	5	0
Hugh Tayfield	run out	15	0
Ian Smith	bowled	1	0
Cuan McCarthy	not out	0	0

Ray Lindwall 19.00-3-47-3Keith Miller 24.00-5-73-1Colin McCool 13.00-3-35-0Bill Johnston 31.20-5-75-4Sam Loxton 6.00-1-31-0Ian Johnson 16.00-5-38-1

Australia, 71 (10 wkts)

Arthur Morris	caught (Ian Smith)	25	0
Jack Moroney	bowled	10	0
Ian Johnson	lbw	2	0
Keith Miller	bowled	2	0
Lindsay Hassett	lbw	2	0
Ron Saggers	caught (Jack Cheetham)	2	0
Colin McCool	lbw	1	0
Ray Lindwall	bowled	7	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Hugh Tayfield)	2	0
Sam Loxton	caught (Jack Cheetham)	16	0
Bill Johnston	not out	2	0

Cuan McCarthy 6.00-2-8-0John Watkins 4.00-1-9-0Tufty Mann 10.00-1-31-3Hugh Tayfield 8.40-1-23-7

South Africa, 92 (10 wkts)

Eric Rowan	caught (Ron Saggers)	4	0
Owen Wynne	bowled	29	0
Jack Nel	lbw	20	0
Dudley Nourse	caught (Colin McCool)	27	0
Billy Wade	bowled	0	0
Jack Cheetham	caught (Lindsay Hassett)	1	0
John Watkins	stumping (Ron Saggers)	2	0
Hugh Tayfield	bowled	3	0
Tufty Mann	lbw	0	0
Ian Smith	bowled	4	0
Cuan McCarthy	not out	2	0

Ray Lindwall 4.00-1-7-1Keith Miller 7.00-0-12-0Bill Johnston 18.20-6-39-4Ian Johnson 17.00-2-34-5

Australia, 319 (5 wkts)

Arthur Morris	hitwicket	44	0
Jack Moroney	lbw	10	0
Keith Miller	lbw	10	0
Lindsay Hassett	lbw	11	0
Neil Harvey	not out	151	0
Sam Loxton	bowled	54	0
Colin McCool	not out	39	0
Ian Johnson	did not bat	0	0
Ron Saggers	did not bat	0	0
Ray Lindwall	did not bat	0	0
Bill Johnston	did not bat	0	0

Cuan McCarthy 12.00-3-32-0John Watkins 6.00-2-10-0Tufty Mann 51.60-13-101-3Hugh Tayfield 49.00-5-144-2Ian Smith 5.00-0-32-0

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