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 1st Test

England tour of Australia - 1965 (1965/66) · Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane · 10 December 1965 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Bill Lawry top-scored with 166 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1965 TESTS Brisbane Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 438 (6 wkts)

Bill Lawry	caught (Jim Parks)	166	406
Ian Redpath	bowled	17	73
Bob Cowper	caught (Ken Barrington)	22	99
Peter Burge	bowled	0	4
Brian Booth	caught (Fred Titmus)	16	65
Doug Walters	caught (Jim Parks)	155	315
Tom Veivers	not out	56	129
Neil Hawke	not out	6	15
Peter Philpott	did not bat	0	0
Wally Grout	did not bat	0	0
Unknown #1276	did not bat	0	0

David Brown 21.00-4-71-3Ken Higgs 30.00-6-102-2Fred Titmus 38.00-9-99-1David Allen 39.00-12-108-0Bob Barber 5.00-0-42-0Geoff Boycott 4.00-0-16-0

England, 273 (10 wkts)

Bob Barber	caught (Doug Walters)	5	10
Geoff Boycott	bowled	45	122
John Edrich	caught (Bill Lawry)	32	98
Ken Barrington	bowled	53	173
Mike Smith	bowled	16	54
Jim Parks	caught (Ian Redpath)	52	66
Fred Titmus	stumping (Wally Grout)	60	146
David Allen	caught (Bob Cowper)	3	15
David Brown	bowled	3	22
Ken Higgs	lbw	4	29
Eric Russell	not out	0	10

Unknown #1276 21.00-6-58-2Neil Hawke 16.00-7-44-2Doug Walters 10.00-1-25-1Peter Philpott 28.10-3-90-5Bob Cowper 7.00-4-7-0Tom Veivers 11.00-1-49-0

England, 182 (3 wkts)

Bob Barber	caught (Tom Veivers)	34	37
Geoff Boycott	not out	63	212
John Edrich	caught (Tom Veivers)	37	71
Ken Barrington	caught (Brian Booth)	38	43
Mike Smith	not out	10	29
Jim Parks	did not bat	0	0
Fred Titmus	did not bat	0	0
David Allen	did not bat	0	0
David Brown	did not bat	0	0
Ken Higgs	did not bat	0	0
Eric Russell	did not bat	0	0

Unknown #1276 3.00-0-25-0Neil Hawke 10.00-2-16-0Doug Walters 5.00-1-22-1Peter Philpott 14.00-1-62-1Bob Cowper 6.00-0-20-1Tom Veivers 12.00-0-37-0

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