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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Australia v England 4th Test

England tour of Australia - 1958 (1958/59) · Adelaide Oval, Adelaide · 30 January 1959 · England won the toss and chose to bowl

Australia won by 10 wickets

Australia won by 10 wickets. Colin McDonald top-scored with 170 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1959 TESTS Adelaide Oval ARCHIVE

Australia, 460 (10 wkts)

Colin McDonald	bowled	170	315
Jim Burke	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	66	191
Neil Harvey	run out	41	126
Norm O'Neill	bowled	56	112
Les Favell	bowled	4	4
Ken Mackay	caught (Godfrey Evans)	4	18
Richie Benaud	bowled	46	86
Alan Davidson	caught (Trevor Bailey)	43	98
Wally Grout	lbw	9	35
Ray Lindwall	bowled	19	40
Gordon Rorke	not out	2	7

Brian Statham 23.00-0-83-3Fred Trueman 30.10-6-90-4Frank Tyson 28.00-1-100-1Trevor Bailey 22.00-2-91-1Tony Lock 25.00-0-96-0

England, 237 (10 wkts)

Peter Richardson	lbw	4	8
Trevor Bailey	bowled	4	5
Peter May	bowled	37	50
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	84	198
Tom Graveney	caught (Richie Benaud)	41	167
Willie Watson	bowled	25	78
Fred Trueman	caught (Wally Grout)	0	11
Tony Lock	caught (Wally Grout)	2	7
Frank Tyson	caught (Richie Benaud)	0	4
Godfrey Evans	caught (Jim Burke)	4	2
Brian Statham	not out	36	68

Alan Davidson 12.00-0-49-1Ray Lindwall 15.00-0-66-1Gordon Rorke 18.10-7-23-3Richie Benaud 27.00-6-91-5Norm O'Neill 2.00-1-8-0

England, 253 (10 wkts)

Peter Richardson	lbw	43	151
Willie Watson	caught (Les Favell)	40	135
Peter May	lbw	59	116
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	8	19
Tom Graveney	not out	53	231
Trevor Bailey	caught (Wally Grout)	6	38
Fred Trueman	caught (Wally Grout)	0	3
Tony Lock	bowled	9	46
Frank Tyson	caught (Wally Grout)	33	71
Brian Statham	caught (Norm O'Neill)	2	6
Godfrey Evans	caught (Richie Benaud)	0	3

Alan Davidson 8.30-3-17-2Ray Lindwall 26.00-6-70-2Gordon Rorke 34.00-7-78-2Richie Benaud 29.00-10-82-4Jim Burke 4.00-2-6-0

Australia, 31 (0 wkts)

Alan Davidson	did not bat	0	0
Les Favell	not out	15	36
Jim Burke	not out	16	47
Colin McDonald	did not bat	0	0
Neil Harvey	did not bat	0	0
Norm O'Neill	did not bat	0	0
Ken Mackay	did not bat	0	0
Richie Benaud	did not bat	0	0
Wally Grout	did not bat	0	0
Ray Lindwall	did not bat	0	0
Gordon Rorke	did not bat	0	0

Brian Statham 4.00-0-11-0Fred Trueman 3.00-1-3-0Tony Lock 2.00-0-8-0Colin Cowdrey 1.30-0-9-0

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