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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England v Australia 2nd Test

Australia tour of England - 1909 (1909) · Lord's, London · 14 June 1909 · Australia won the toss and chose to bowl

Australia won by 9 wickets

Australia won by 9 wickets. Vernon Ransford top-scored with 143* for Australia.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1909 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

England, 253 (10 wkts)

Tom Hayward	stumping (Sammy Carter)	16	0
Jack Hobbs	caught (Sammy Carter)	19	0
Johnny Tyldesley	lbw	46	0
George Gunn	lbw	1	0
John King	caught (Charles Macartney)	60	0
Archie MacLaren	caught (Warwick Armstrong)	7	0
George Hirst	bowled	31	0
Arthur Jones	bowled	8	0
Albert Relf	caught (Warwick Armstrong)	17	0
Dick Lilley	caught (Warren Bardsley)	47	0
Schofield Haigh	not out	1	0

Frank Laver 32.00-9-75-3Charles Macartney 8.00-3-10-0Tibby Cotter 23.00-1-80-4Monty Noble 24.20-9-42-3Warwick Armstrong 20.00-6-46-0

Australia, 323 (10 wkts)

Peter McAlister	lbw	22	0
Frank Laver	bowled	14	0
Warren Bardsley	bowled	46	0
Warwick Armstrong	caught (Dick Lilley)	12	0
Vernon Ransford	not out	143	0
Victor Trumper	caught (Archie MacLaren)	28	0
Monty Noble	caught (Dick Lilley)	32	0
Syd Gregory	caught (Dick Lilley)	14	0
Tibby Cotter	run out	0	0
Charles Macartney	bowled	5	0
Sammy Carter	bowled	7	0

George Hirst 26.50-2-83-3John King 27.00-5-99-1Albert Relf 45.00-14-85-5Schofield Haigh 19.00-5-41-0Arthur Jones 2.00-0-15-0

England, 106 (10 wkts)

Tom Hayward	run out	6	0
Jack Hobbs	caught (Warwick Armstrong)	9	0
Johnny Tyldesley	stumping (Sammy Carter)	3	0
George Gunn	bowled	0	0
John King	bowled	4	0
Arthur Jones	lbw	26	0
George Hirst	bowled	1	0
Archie MacLaren	bowled	24	0
Dick Lilley	not out	25	0
Albert Relf	bowled	3	0
Schofield Haigh	run out	5	0

Frank Laver 13.00-4-24-1Tibby Cotter 18.00-3-35-0Monty Noble 5.00-1-12-1Warwick Armstrong 24.50-11-35-6

Australia, 37 (1 wkts)

Peter McAlister	not out	19	0
Warren Bardsley	caught (Dick Lilley)	0	0
Syd Gregory	not out	18	0
Frank Laver	did not bat	0	0
Warwick Armstrong	did not bat	0	0
Vernon Ransford	did not bat	0	0
Victor Trumper	did not bat	0	0
Monty Noble	did not bat	0	0
Tibby Cotter	did not bat	0	0
Charles Macartney	did not bat	0	0
Sammy Carter	did not bat	0	0

George Hirst 8.00-1-28-0Albert Relf 7.40-4-9-1

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