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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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Australia v England 5th Test

England tour of Australia - 1901 (1901/02) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 28 February 1902 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 32 runs

Australia won by 32 runs. Clem Hill top-scored with 87 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1902 TESTS Melbourne Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 135 (10 wkts)

Victor Trumper	bowled	27	0
Reggie Duff	bowled	10	0
Clem Hill	caught (Arthur Jones)	28	0
Syd Gregory	caught (Arthur Jones)	25	0
Monty Noble	lbw	7	0
Hugh Trumble	caught (Willie Quaife)	3	0
Warwick Armstrong	not out	17	0
Bert Hopkins	caught (Dick Lilley)	4	0
James Kelly	caught (John Gunn)	0	0
Charles Eady	bowled	5	0
Ike Travers	caught (Len Braund)	9	0

Gilbert Jessop 1.00-0-13-0Len Braund 10.00-2-33-1Colin Blythe 9.00-2-29-1Tom Hayward 16.00-9-22-4John Gunn 17.00-6-38-4

England, 186 (10 wkts)

Archie MacLaren	caught (Hugh Trumble)	25	0
Gilbert Jessop	caught (Bert Hopkins)	35	0
Willie Quaife	caught (Hugh Trumble)	3	0
Johnny Tyldesley	caught (James Kelly)	13	0
Tom Hayward	caught (Victor Trumper)	19	0
Len Braund	caught (Bert Hopkins)	32	0
Dick Lilley	caught (Charles Eady)	41	0
Charlie McGahey	bowled	0	0
Arthur Jones	caught (James Kelly)	10	0
John Gunn	lbw	8	0
Colin Blythe	not out	0	0

Monty Noble 26.00-4-80-1Hugh Trumble 25.00-4-62-5Ike Travers 8.00-2-14-1Charles Eady 8.30-2-30-3

Australia, 247 (10 wkts)

Victor Trumper	caught (Charlie McGahey)	18	0
Reggie Duff	caught (Len Braund)	28	0
Clem Hill	caught (Dick Lilley)	87	0
Syd Gregory	bowled	41	0
Monty Noble	caught (Archie MacLaren)	16	0
Warwick Armstrong	lbw	20	0
Hugh Trumble	bowled	22	0
James Kelly	not out	11	0
Bert Hopkins	caught (Archie MacLaren)	0	0
Charles Eady	caught (John Gunn)	3	0
Ike Travers	caught (Len Braund)	1	0

Len Braund 26.10-4-95-5Colin Blythe 13.00-3-36-2Tom Hayward 22.00-4-63-1John Gunn 28.00-11-53-2

England, 175 (10 wkts)

Archie MacLaren	run out	49	0
Tom Hayward	caught (Ike Travers)	15	0
Willie Quaife	lbw	4	0
Gilbert Jessop	caught (Victor Trumper)	16	0
Johnny Tyldesley	caught (Charles Eady)	36	0
Len Braund	caught (Clem Hill)	2	0
Dick Lilley	caught (Reggie Duff)	9	0
Charlie McGahey	caught (Clem Hill)	7	0
Arthur Jones	caught (Monty Noble)	28	0
John Gunn	caught (Clem Hill)	4	0
Colin Blythe	not out	5	0

Monty Noble 33.00-4-98-6Hugh Trumble 30.30-7-64-3Charles Eady 2.00-0-13-0

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