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 - 1897 (1897/98) · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney · 13 December 1897 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 9 wickets

England won by 9 wickets. KS Ranjitsinhji top-scored with 175 for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1897 TESTS Sydney Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

England, 539 (10 wkts)

Jack Mason	bowled	6	0
Archie MacLaren	caught (James Kelly)	109	0
Tom Hayward	caught (Harry Trott)	72	0
Bill Storer	caught (Harry Trott)	43	0
Frank Druce	caught (Syd Gregory)	20	0
George Hirst	bowled	62	0
KS Ranjitsinhji	caught (Syd Gregory)	175	0
Ted Wainwright	bowled	10	0
Jack Hearne	caught (Charlie McLeod)	17	0
Johnny Briggs	run out	1	0
Tom Richardson	not out	24	0

Tom McKibbin 34.00-5-113-1Ernie Jones 50.00-8-130-3Charlie McLeod 28.00-12-80-3Hugh Trumble 40.00-7-138-1Harry Trott 23.00-2-78-1

Australia, 231 (10 wkts)

Joe Darling	caught (Frank Druce)	7	0
John Lyons	bowled	3	0
Frank Iredale	caught (Frank Druce)	25	0
Clem Hill	bowled	19	0
Syd Gregory	caught (Jack Mason)	46	0
Harry Trott	bowled	10	0
James Kelly	bowled	1	0
Hugh Trumble	caught (Bill Storer)	70	0
Charlie McLeod	not out	50	0
Tom McKibbin	bowled	0	0
Ernie Jones	caught (Tom Richardson)	0	0

Tom Richardson 27.00-8-71-3George Hirst 28.00-7-57-0Jack Hearne 20.10-7-42-5Johnny Briggs 20.00-7-42-1Tom Hayward 3.00-1-11-0Jack Mason 2.00-1-8-1

Australia, 381 (10 wkts)

Joe Darling	caught (Frank Druce)	101	0
Frank Iredale	bowled	18	0
Charlie McLeod	run out	26	0
Clem Hill	bowled	96	0
Syd Gregory	run out	31	0
Hugh Trumble	caught (Frank Druce)	2	0
John Lyons	caught (Tom Hayward)	25	0
Harry Trott	bowled	27	0
James Kelly	not out	46	0
Ernie Jones	lbw	3	0
Tom McKibbin	bowled	6	0

Tom Richardson 41.00-9-121-2George Hirst 13.00-3-49-0Jack Hearne 38.00-8-99-4Johnny Briggs 22.00-3-86-2Tom Hayward 5.00-1-16-0Jack Mason 2.00-0-10-0

England, 90 (1 wkts)

George Hirst	did not bat	0	0
Archie MacLaren	not out	50	0
Jack Mason	bowled	32	0
KS Ranjitsinhji	not out	8	0
Tom Hayward	did not bat	0	0
Bill Storer	did not bat	0	0
Frank Druce	did not bat	0	0
Ted Wainwright	did not bat	0	0
Jack Hearne	did not bat	0	0
Johnny Briggs	did not bat	0	0
Tom Richardson	did not bat	0	0

Hugh Trumble 14.00-4-40-0Tom McKibbin 5.00-1-22-1Ernie Jones 9.00-1-28-0

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