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 4th Test

Australia tour of England - 1938 (1938) · Headingley, Leeds · 22 July 1938 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 5 wickets

Australia won by 5 wickets. Donald Bradman top-scored with 103 for Australia.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1938 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

England, 216 (10 wkts)

Bill Edrich	bowled	12	67
Charlie Barnett	caught (Ben Barnett)	30	134
Joe Hardstaff	run out	4	10
Wally Hammond	bowled	76	149
Eddie Paynter	stumping (Ben Barnett)	28	108
Denis Compton	bowled	14	36
Fred Price	caught (Stan McCabe)	0	8
Hedley Verity	not out	25	54
Doug Wright	caught (Jack Fingleton)	22	27
Ken Farnes	caught (Jack Fingleton)	2	2
Bill Bowes	bowled	3	3

Ernie McCormick 20.00-6-46-1Mervyn Waite 18.00-7-31-0Bill O'Reilly 34.10-17-66-5Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 25.00-7-73-3Stan McCabe 1.00-1-0-0

Australia, 237 (10 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	bowled	30	117
Bill Brown	bowled	22	30
Ben Barnett	caught (Fred Price)	57	140
Donald Bradman	bowled	103	184
Stan McCabe	bowled	1	9
Jack Badcock	bowled	4	12
Lindsay Hassett	caught (Wally Hammond)	13	52
Mervyn Waite	caught (Fred Price)	3	35
Bill O'Reilly	caught (Wally Hammond)	2	6
Ernie McCormick	bowled	0	5
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	not out	2	4

Ken Farnes 26.00-3-77-4Bill Bowes 35.40-6-79-3Doug Wright 15.00-4-38-2Hedley Verity 19.00-6-30-1Bill Edrich 3.00-0-13-0

England, 117 (10 wkts)

Bill Edrich	stumping (Ben Barnett)	28	110
Charlie Barnett	caught (Ben Barnett)	29	69
Joe Hardstaff	bowled	11	23
Wally Hammond	caught (Bill Brown)	0	1
Eddie Paynter	not out	21	60
Denis Compton	caught (Ben Barnett)	15	20
Fred Price	lbw	6	14
Hedley Verity	bowled	0	5
Doug Wright	caught (Mervyn Waite)	0	1
Ken Farnes	bowled	7	6
Bill Bowes	lbw	0	1

Ernie McCormick 11.00-4-18-1Mervyn Waite 2.00-0-9-0Bill O'Reilly 21.50-8-56-5Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 16.00-4-34-4

Australia, 102 (5 wkts)

Jack Fingleton	lbw	9	43
Bill Brown	lbw	9	12
Donald Bradman	caught (Hedley Verity)	16	31
Stan McCabe	caught (Charlie Barnett)	15	16
Lindsay Hassett	caught (Bill Edrich)	33	36
Jack Badcock	not out	5	42
Ben Barnett	not out	15	18
Mervyn Waite	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 11.30-4-17-1Bill Bowes 11.00-0-35-0Doug Wright 5.00-0-26-3Hedley Verity 5.00-2-24-1

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