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 New Zealand 4th Test

New Zealand tour of South Africa - 1953 (1953/54) · Ellis Park, Johannesburg · 29 January 1954 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl

South Africa won by 9 wickets

South Africa won by 9 wickets. Jackie McGlew top-scored with 61 for South Africa.

South Africa ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1954 TESTS Ellis Park ARCHIVE

South Africa, 231 (10 wkts)

Jackie McGlew	lbw	61	0
Dick Westcott	caught (Murray Chapple)	43	0
John Watkins	caught (Frank Mooney)	6	0
Russell Endean	caught (Bert Sutcliffe)	7	0
Roy McLean	caught (Bert Sutcliffe)	0	0
Clive van Ryneveld	caught (Frank Mooney)	11	0
Jack Cheetham	run out	29	0
John Waite	run out	52	0
Hugh Tayfield	caught (John Reid)	19	0
David Ironside	not out	3	0
Neil Adcock	bowled	0	0

Bob Blair 19.00-4-42-3John Reid 21.00-3-67-0Tony MacGibbon 26.00-6-57-2Guy Overton 32.00-10-65-3

New Zealand, 77 (10 wkts)

Frank Mooney	run out	23	0
Murray Chapple	caught (John Waite)	4	0
Matt Poore	caught (Hugh Tayfield)	18	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (Roy McLean)	0	3
John Reid	caught (John Waite)	0	0
Lawrie Miller	bowled	0	0
John Beck	bowled	0	0
Eric Dempster	not out	21	0
Tony MacGibbon	stumping (John Waite)	10	0
Bob Blair	bowled	1	0
Guy Overton	bowled	0	0

Neil Adcock 11.30-1-27-1David Ironside 14.00-5-20-2John Watkins 7.00-1-17-0Hugh Tayfield 14.00-7-13-6

New Zealand, 175 (10 wkts)

Frank Mooney	bowled	2	0
Eric Dempster	caught (John Waite)	47	0
Matt Poore	caught (Russell Endean)	0	0
Murray Chapple	caught	42	0
John Reid	caught (David Ironside)	26	0
Bert Sutcliffe	bowled	23	0
Lawrie Miller	caught (John Waite)	0	0
John Beck	bowled	21	0
Tony MacGibbon	bowled	8	0
Bob Blair	not out	5	0
Guy Overton	caught (Clive van Ryneveld)	1	0

Neil Adcock 26.00-8-45-5David Ironside 23.20-6-50-1John Watkins 12.00-4-13-2Hugh Tayfield 29.00-12-48-2Clive van Ryneveld 2.00-0-19-0

South Africa, 23 (1 wkts)

Jackie McGlew	not out	6	0
Dick Westcott	lbw	1	0
Jack Cheetham	not out	16	0
John Watkins	did not bat	0	0
Russell Endean	did not bat	0	0
Roy McLean	did not bat	0	0
Clive van Ryneveld	did not bat	0	0
John Waite	did not bat	0	0
Hugh Tayfield	did not bat	0	0
David Ironside	did not bat	0	0
Neil Adcock	did not bat	0	0

Bob Blair 3.00-0-6-0Tony MacGibbon 3.00-0-16-1Lawrie Miller 0.20-0-1-0

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