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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 Australia 1st Test

Australia tour of England - 1909 (1909) · Edgbaston, Birmingham · 27 May 1909 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 10 wickets

England won by 10 wickets. Jack Hobbs top-scored with 62* for England.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1909 TESTS Edgbaston ARCHIVE

Australia, 72 (10 wkts)

Tibby Cotter	caught (George Hirst)	2	0
Warren Bardsley	caught (Archie MacLaren)	2	0
Warwick Armstrong	bowled	24	0
Victor Trumper	caught (George Hirst)	10	0
Monty Noble	caught (Gilbert Jessop)	15	0
Syd Gregory	caught (Wilfred Rhodes)	0	0
Vernon Ransford	bowled	1	0
Charles Macartney	caught (Archie MacLaren)	10	0
Sammy Carter	lbw	0	0
Jack O'Connor	lbw	8	0
Bill Whitty	not out	0	0

George Hirst 23.00-8-28-4Colin Blythe 23.00-6-44-6

England, 116 (10 wkts)

Archie MacLaren	bowled	5	0
Jack Hobbs	lbw	0	1
Johnny Tyldesley	bowled	24	0
C.B. Fry	bowled	0	1
Arthur Jones	caught (Sammy Carter)	28	0
George Hirst	lbw	15	0
Gilbert Jessop	bowled	22	0
Wilfred Rhodes	not out	15	0
Dick Lilley	caught (Vernon Ransford)	0	0
George Thompson	run out	6	0
Colin Blythe	caught (Charles Macartney)	1	0

Bill Whitty 17.00-5-43-0Charles Macartney 17.00-6-21-3Monty Noble 1.00-0-2-0Jack O'Connor 5.00-2-23-1Warwick Armstrong 15.30-7-27-5

Australia, 143 (10 wkts)

Monty Noble	caught (Arthur Jones)	11	0
Charles Macartney	lbw	1	0
Syd Gregory	caught (George Thompson)	43	0
Vernon Ransford	bowled	43	0
Victor Trumper	caught (Wilfred Rhodes)	1	0
Warren Bardsley	caught (George Thompson)	6	0
Warwick Armstrong	caught (Gilbert Jessop)	0	0
Sammy Carter	caught (Jack Hobbs)	1	0
Tibby Cotter	caught (Johnny Tyldesley)	15	0
Jack O'Connor	caught (Dick Lilley)	13	0
Bill Whitty	not out	9	0

George Hirst 23.50-4-58-5Colin Blythe 24.00-3-58-5George Thompson 4.00-0-19-0Wilfred Rhodes 1.00-0-8-0

England, 97 (0 wkts)

Jack Hobbs	not out	62	0
C.B. Fry	not out	35	0
Archie MacLaren	did not bat	0	0
Johnny Tyldesley	did not bat	0	0
Arthur Jones	did not bat	0	0
George Hirst	did not bat	0	0
Gilbert Jessop	did not bat	0	0
Wilfred Rhodes	did not bat	0	0
Dick Lilley	did not bat	0	0
George Thompson	did not bat	0	0
Colin Blythe	did not bat	0	0

Bill Whitty 5.00-1-18-0Charles Macartney 11.00-2-35-0Jack O'Connor 3.20-1-17-0Warwick Armstrong 13.00-5-27-0

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