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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 - 1953 (1953) · Trent Bridge, Nottingham · 11 June 1953 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Lindsay Hassett top-scored with 115 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1953 TESTS Trent Bridge ARCHIVE

Australia, 244 (10 wkts)

Graeme Hole	bowled	0	7
Arthur Morris	lbw	67	0
Lindsay Hassett	bowled	115	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Denis Compton)	0	9
Keith Miller	caught (Trevor Bailey)	55	0
Richie Benaud	caught (Godfrey Evans)	3	0
Alan Davidson	bowled	4	0
Don Tallon	bowled	0	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Godfrey Evans)	0	0
Jack Hill	bowled	0	0
Bill Johnston	not out	0	0

Alec Bedser 38.30-16-55-7Trevor Bailey 44.00-14-75-2Johnny Wardle 35.00-16-55-1Roy Tattersall 23.00-5-59-0

England, 136 (10 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	caught (Richie Benaud)	43	0
Don Kenyon	caught (Jack Hill)	8	0
Reg Simpson	lbw	0	2
Denis Compton	caught (Arthur Morris)	0	0
Tom Graveney	caught (Richie Benaud)	22	0
Peter May	caught (Don Tallon)	9	0
Trevor Bailey	lbw	13	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (Don Tallon)	8	0
Johnny Wardle	not out	29	0
Alec Bedser	lbw	2	0
Roy Tattersall	bowled	2	0

Ray Lindwall 20.40-2-57-5Bill Johnston 18.00-7-22-0Jack Hill 19.00-8-35-3Alan Davidson 15.00-7-22-2

Australia, 118 (10 wkts)

Graeme Hole	bowled	5	0
Arthur Morris	bowled	60	0
Lindsay Hassett	caught (Leonard Hutton)	5	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Tom Graveney)	2	0
Keith Miller	caught (Don Kenyon)	5	0
Richie Benaud	bowled	0	0
Alan Davidson	caught (Tom Graveney)	6	0
Don Tallon	caught (Reg Simpson)	15	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Roy Tattersall)	12	0
Jack Hill	caught (Roy Tattersall)	4	0
Bill Johnston	not out	4	0

Alec Bedser 17.20-7-44-7Trevor Bailey 5.00-1-28-0Johnny Wardle 12.00-3-24-0Roy Tattersall 5.00-0-22-3

England, 104 (1 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	not out	60	0
Don Kenyon	caught (Lindsay Hassett)	16	0
Reg Simpson	not out	28	0
Denis Compton	did not bat	0	0
Tom Graveney	did not bat	0	0
Peter May	did not bat	0	0
Trevor Bailey	did not bat	0	0
Godfrey Evans	did not bat	0	0
Johnny Wardle	did not bat	0	0
Alec Bedser	did not bat	0	0
Roy Tattersall	did not bat	0	0

Ray Lindwall 16.00-4-37-0Bill Johnston 18.00-9-14-0Jack Hill 12.00-3-26-1Alan Davidson 5.00-1-7-0Richie Benaud 5.00-0-15-0Arthur Morris 2.00-0-5-0

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