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 England 2nd Test

England tour of South Africa - 1922 (1922/23) · Newlands, Cape Town · 1 January 1923 · South Africa won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 1 wicket

England won by 1 wicket. Bob Catterall top-scored with 76 for South Africa.

South Africa ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1923 TESTS Newlands ARCHIVE

South Africa, 91 (10 wkts)

Bob Catterall	caught (George Brown)	10	0
George Hearne	caught (Percy Fender)	0	0
Herbie Taylor	bowled	9	0
Dave Nourse	lbw	16	0
William Ling	caught (Frank Mann)	13	0
William Brann	bowled	0	0
Jimmy Blanckenberg	caught (Arthur Carr)	9	0
Cyril Francois	run out	28	0
Tommy Ward	bowled	4	0
Buster Nupen	caught (George Macaulay)	2	0
Alf Hall	not out	0	0

Alex Kennedy 18.00-10-24-1George Macaulay 13.00-5-19-2Percy Fender 14.00-4-29-4Frank Woolley 2.00-1-1-0Vallance Jupp 9.00-3-18-2

England, 171 (10 wkts)

Jack Russell	caught (Bob Catterall)	39	0
Andy Sandham	caught (Cyril Francois)	19	0
Frank Woolley	caught (Cyril Francois)	0	0
Phil Mead	caught (Cyril Francois)	21	0
Arthur Carr	caught (Tommy Ward)	42	0
Frank Mann	lbw	4	0
Percy Fender	caught (George Hearne)	3	0
Vallance Jupp	caught (George Hearne)	12	0
Alex Kennedy	caught (George Hearne)	2	0
George Brown	not out	10	0
George Macaulay	bowled	19	0

Buster Nupen 15.00-2-48-1Alf Hall 25.00-8-49-4Jimmy Blanckenberg 24.10-5-61-5Cyril Francois 4.00-1-13-0

South Africa, 219 (10 wkts)

Bob Catterall	bowled	76	0
George Hearne	bowled	0	0
Herbie Taylor	caught (Vallance Jupp)	68	0
Dave Nourse	bowled	19	0
William Ling	caught (Percy Fender)	2	0
William Brann	lbw	4	0
Cyril Francois	caught (George Macaulay)	19	0
Jimmy Blanckenberg	bowled	5	0
Tommy Ward	not out	15	0
Buster Nupen	bowled	6	0
Alf Hall	bowled	5	0

Alex Kennedy 35.20-13-58-4George Macaulay 37.00-11-64-5Percy Fender 20.00-3-52-1Frank Woolley 11.00-3-22-0Vallance Jupp 11.00-3-23-0

England, 164 (9 wkts)

Jack Russell	lbw	8	0
Andy Sandham	lbw	17	0
Frank Woolley	bowled	5	0
Phil Mead	lbw	31	0
Arthur Carr	caught (William Brann)	6	0
Percy Fender	caught (Dave Nourse)	2	0
Frank Mann	caught (Jimmy Blanckenberg)	45	0
Vallance Jupp	stumping (Tommy Ward)	38	0
Alex Kennedy	not out	11	0
George Brown	run out	0	0
George Macaulay	not out	1	0

Buster Nupen 24.00-8-41-0Alf Hall 37.30-12-63-7Jimmy Blanckenberg 24.00-7-56-1Cyril Francois 3.00-0-4-0

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