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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England v Australia 4th Test

Australia tour of England - 1909 (1909) · Old Trafford, Manchester · 26 July 1909 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Reggie Spooner top-scored with 58 for England.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1909 TESTS Old Trafford ARCHIVE

Australia, 134 (10 wkts)

Syd Gregory	bowled	21	0
Warren Bardsley	bowled	9	0
Vernon Ransford	lbw	4	0
Monty Noble	bowled	17	0
Victor Trumper	caught (Kenneth Hutchings)	2	0
Warwick Armstrong	not out	32	0
Bert Hopkins	bowled	3	0
Charles Macartney	bowled	5	0
Tibby Cotter	caught (Johnny Tyldesley)	17	0
Sammy Carter	lbw	13	0
Frank Laver	bowled	11	0

George Hirst 7.00-0-15-0Sydney Barnes 27.00-9-56-5Colin Blythe 20.30-5-63-5

England, 110 (10 wkts)

Pelham Warner	bowled	9	0
Reggie Spooner	caught (Tibby Cotter)	25	0
Johnny Tyldesley	caught (Warwick Armstrong)	15	0
Jack Sharp	caught (Warwick Armstrong)	3	0
Wilfred Rhodes	caught (Sammy Carter)	5	0
Kenneth Hutchings	bowled	9	0
Archie MacLaren	lbw	16	0
Dick Lilley	not out	26	0
George Hirst	caught (Bert Hopkins)	1	0
Sydney Barnes	bowled	0	0
Colin Blythe	bowled	1	0

Monty Noble 8.00-2-11-0Charles Macartney 18.00-6-31-1Frank Laver 18.20-7-31-8Tibby Cotter 8.00-1-37-1

Australia, 261 (9 wkts)

Syd Gregory	bowled	5	0
Warren Bardsley	caught (Archie MacLaren)	35	0
Charles Macartney	bowled	51	0
Monty Noble	bowled	13	0
Warwick Armstrong	lbw	30	0
Victor Trumper	caught (Johnny Tyldesley)	48	0
Vernon Ransford	not out	54	0
Bert Hopkins	caught (Sydney Barnes)	9	0
Tibby Cotter	caught (Archie MacLaren)	4	0
Sammy Carter	lbw	12	0
Frank Laver	did not bat	0	0

George Hirst 12.00-3-32-1Sydney Barnes 22.30-5-66-1Colin Blythe 24.00-5-77-2Jack Sharp 1.00-0-3-0Wilfred Rhodes 25.00-0-83-5

England, 102 (3 wkts)

Pelham Warner	bowled	25	0
Reggie Spooner	bowled	58	0
Johnny Tyldesley	bowled	11	0
Jack Sharp	not out	8	0
Wilfred Rhodes	not out	0	0
Kenneth Hutchings	did not bat	0	0
Archie MacLaren	did not bat	0	0
Dick Lilley	did not bat	0	0
George Hirst	did not bat	0	0
Sydney Barnes	did not bat	0	0
Colin Blythe	did not bat	0	0

Charles Macartney 7.00-2-16-0Frank Laver 21.00-12-25-1Tibby Cotter 5.00-0-14-0Warwick Armstrong 10.00-6-16-0Bert Hopkins 12.00-4-31-2

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