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 2nd Test

England tour of Australia - 1887 (1886/87) · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney · 25 February 1887 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 71 runs

England won by 71 runs. Dick Barlow top-scored with 42* for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1887 TESTS Sydney Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

England, 137 (10 wkts)

Arthur Shrewsbury	bowled	9	0
Billy Bates	caught (J.J. Ferris)	8	0
Maurice Read	bowled	11	0
Billy Gunn	bowled	9	0
Dick Barlow	caught (Reginald Allen)	34	0
George Lohmann	bowled	2	0
William Scotton	bowled	0	0
Johnny Briggs	bowled	17	0
Wilf Flowers	caught (Reginald Allen)	37	0
Reg Wood	lbw	6	0
Mordecai Sherwin	not out	4	0

J.J. Ferris 45.00-16-71-5Charlie Turner 53.00-29-41-5Tom Garrett 6.00-2-12-0Billy Midwinter 3.00-1-2-0John Lyons 2.00-0-11-0

Australia, 78 (10 wkts)

J.J. Ferris	bowled	1	9
John Lyons	bowled	11	32
Walter Giffen	bowled	2	18
Reginald Allen	bowled	14	38
Harry Moses	bowled	28	78
Percy McDonnell	caught (Billy Gunn)	10	9
Billy Midwinter	bowled	1	4
John Cottam	bowled	1	6
Charlie Turner	caught (Wilf Flowers)	9	17
Tom Garrett	bowled	1	3
Fred Burton	not out	0	7

George Lohmann 27.10-12-35-8Johnny Briggs 20.00-6-34-0Wilf Flowers 8.00-3-9-2

England, 137 (10 wkts)

Arthur Shrewsbury	bowled	6	0
Billy Bates	bowled	30	0
Dick Barlow	not out	42	0
Maurice Read	stumping (Fred Burton)	2	0
Billy Gunn	caught (John Cottam)	10	0
George Lohmann	bowled	6	0
William Scotton	bowled	2	0
Johnny Briggs	bowled	16	0
Wilf Flowers	bowled	18	0
Reg Wood	bowled	0	0
Mordecai Sherwin	bowled	5	0

J.J. Ferris 60.00-33-69-4Charlie Turner 64.10-33-52-4Tom Garrett 10.00-6-7-1Billy Midwinter 6.00-3-9-1

Australia, 138 (10 wkts)

Percy McDonnell	caught (Billy Gunn)	35	0
Harry Moses	stumping (Mordecai Sherwin)	33	0
Reginald Allen	caught (Charlie Turner)	30	0
John Lyons	caught (Billy Gunn)	0	3
John Cottam	stumping (Mordecai Sherwin)	3	0
Walter Giffen	bowled	0	1
Billy Midwinter	caught (Mordecai Sherwin)	4	0
Charlie Turner	caught (Johnny Briggs)	9	0
Tom Garrett	caught (Mordecai Sherwin)	20	0
J.J. Ferris	run out	2	0
Fred Burton	not out	2	0

George Lohmann 40.00-16-52-2Johnny Briggs 22.00-9-31-3Wilf Flowers 13.00-5-17-0Billy Bates 26.00-13-26-4Dick Barlow 9.00-2-12-0

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