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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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England v South Africa 4th Test

South Africa tour of England - 1947 (1947) · Headingley, Leeds · 26 July 1947 · South Africa won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 10 wickets

England won by 10 wickets. Leonard Hutton top-scored with 100 for England.

South Africa ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1947 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

South Africa, 168 (10 wkts)

Alan Melville	bowled	0	0
Dennis Dyer	caught (Godfrey Evans)	9	0
Bruce Mitchell	bowled	53	0
Dudley Nourse	bowled	51	0
Ken Viljoen	bowled	5	0
Ossie Dawson	caught (Jack Young)	5	0
George Fullerton	caught (Ken Cranston)	13	0
Athol Rowan	caught (Norman Yardley)	0	0
Tufty Mann	caught (Bill Edrich)	29	0
Lindsay Tuckett	caught (Godfrey Evans)	3	0
Ian Smith	not out	0	0

Harold Butler 28.00-15-34-4Bill Edrich 17.00-4-46-3Jack Young 17.00-5-31-0Doug Wright 20.00-9-24-2Ken Cranston 11.10-3-24-1Denis Compton 4.00-0-9-0

England, 299 (7 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	run out	100	0
Cyril Washbrook	bowled	75	0
Bill Edrich	caught (Alan Melville)	43	0
Denis Compton	caught (Bruce Mitchell)	30	0
Charlie Barnett	caught (Lindsay Tuckett)	6	0
Norman Yardley	caught (Dudley Nourse)	36	0
Ken Cranston	caught (Alan Melville)	3	0
Godfrey Evans	not out	6	0
Jack Young	not out	0	0
Doug Wright	did not bat	0	0
Harold Butler	did not bat	0	0

Lindsay Tuckett 18.00-4-48-0Ossie Dawson 4.00-0-12-0Tufty Mann 50.00-20-68-4Ian Smith 36.00-9-82-1Athol Rowan 46.00-12-89-1

South Africa, 174 (10 wkts)

Alan Melville	caught (Denis Compton)	30	0
Dennis Dyer	caught (Norman Yardley)	2	0
Bruce Mitchell	bowled	5	0
Dudley Nourse	lbw	57	0
Ken Viljoen	lbw	29	0
Ossie Dawson	bowled	17	0
George Fullerton	lbw	13	0
Athol Rowan	not out	21	0
Tufty Mann	caught (Godfrey Evans)	0	2
Lindsay Tuckett	bowled	0	2
Ian Smith	bowled	0	1

Harold Butler 24.00-9-32-3Bill Edrich 14.00-2-35-1Jack Young 19.00-7-54-2Doug Wright 14.00-7-31-0Ken Cranston 7.00-3-12-4Denis Compton 2.00-0-10-0

England, 47 (0 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	not out	32	0
Cyril Washbrook	not out	15	0
Bill Edrich	did not bat	0	0
Denis Compton	did not bat	0	0
Charlie Barnett	did not bat	0	0
Norman Yardley	did not bat	0	0
Ken Cranston	did not bat	0	0
Godfrey Evans	did not bat	0	0
Jack Young	did not bat	0	0
Doug Wright	did not bat	0	0
Harold Butler	did not bat	0	0

Lindsay Tuckett 6.00-1-12-0Ossie Dawson 4.00-1-13-0Tufty Mann 3.40-0-17-0Bruce Mitchell 2.00-1-5-0

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