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 - 1938 (1938) · Lord's, London · 24 June 1938 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Wally Hammond top-scored with 240 for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1938 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

England, 470 (10 wkts)

Charlie Barnett	caught (Bill Brown)	18	21
Leonard Hutton	caught (Bill Brown)	4	9
Bill Edrich	bowled	0	5
Wally Hammond	bowled	240	394
Eddie Paynter	lbw	99	188
Denis Compton	lbw	6	21
Les Ames	caught (Ernie McCormick)	83	154
Hedley Verity	bowled	5	20
Arthur Wellard	caught (Ernie McCormick)	4	3
Doug Wright	bowled	6	23
Ken Farnes	not out	5	6

Ernie McCormick 27.00-1-101-4Stan McCabe 31.00-4-86-0Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 33.50-2-139-2Bill O'Reilly 37.00-6-93-4Arthur Chipperfield 8.40-0-51-0

Australia, 407 (10 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	caught (Wally Hammond)	31	69
Bill Brown	not out	206	370
Donald Bradman	bowled	18	26
Stan McCabe	caught (Hedley Verity)	38	32
Lindsay Hassett	lbw	56	99
Jack Badcock	bowled	0	2
Ben Barnett	caught (Denis Compton)	8	45
Arthur Chipperfield	lbw	1	3
Bill O'Reilly	bowled	42	45
Ernie McCormick	caught (Charlie Barnett)	0	1
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	caught (Charlie Barnett)	7	44

Ken Farnes 43.00-6-135-3Arthur Wellard 23.00-2-96-2Doug Wright 16.00-2-68-1Hedley Verity 35.40-9-103-4Bill Edrich 4.00-2-5-0

England, 213 (8 wkts)

Charlie Barnett	caught (Stan McCabe)	12	38
Leonard Hutton	caught (Ernie McCormick)	5	16
Hedley Verity	bowled	11	47
Bill Edrich	caught (Stan McCabe)	10	24
Eddie Paynter	run out	43	105
Wally Hammond	caught	2	16
Denis Compton	not out	76	137
Les Ames	caught (Stan McCabe)	6	11
Arthur Wellard	bowled	38	37
Doug Wright	not out	10	13
Ken Farnes	did not bat	0	0

Ernie McCormick 24.00-5-72-3Stan McCabe 12.00-1-58-2Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 7.00-1-30-0Bill O'Reilly 29.00-10-53-2

Australia, 193 (6 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	caught (Wally Hammond)	4	14
Bill Brown	bowled	10	59
Donald Bradman	not out	102	135
Stan McCabe	caught (Leonard Hutton)	21	22
Lindsay Hassett	bowled	42	45
Jack Badcock	caught (Doug Wright)	0	1
Ben Barnett	caught (Eddie Paynter)	14	17
Arthur Chipperfield	did not bat	0	0
Bill O'Reilly	did not bat	0	0
Ernie McCormick	did not bat	0	0
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	did not bat	0	0

Ken Farnes 13.00-3-51-0Arthur Wellard 9.00-1-30-1Doug Wright 8.00-0-56-1Hedley Verity 13.00-5-29-2Bill Edrich 5.20-0-27-2

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