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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 3rd Test

Australia tour of England - 1948 (1948) · Old Trafford, Manchester · 8 July 1948 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Denis Compton top-scored with 145* for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1948 TESTS Old Trafford ARCHIVE

England, 336 (10 wkts)

Cyril Washbrook	bowled	11	0
Unknown #829	caught (Sid Barnes)	10	0
Bill Edrich	caught (Don Tallon)	32	0
Denis Compton	not out	145	0
Jack Crapp	lbw	37	0
Tom Dollery	bowled	1	0
Norman Yardley	caught (Ian Johnson)	22	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (Bill Johnston)	34	0
Alec Bedser	run out	37	0
Dick Pollard	bowled	3	0
Jack Young	caught (Donald Bradman)	4	0

Ray Lindwall 40.00-8-99-4Bill Johnston 45.50-13-67-3Sam Loxton 7.00-0-18-0Ernie Toshack 41.00-20-75-2Ian Johnson 38.00-16-77-0

Australia, 209 (9 wkts)

Arthur Morris	caught (Denis Compton)	51	0
Ian Johnson	caught (Godfrey Evans)	1	0
Donald Bradman	lbw	7	7
Lindsay Hassett	caught (Cyril Washbrook)	38	0
Keith Miller	lbw	31	0
Sid Barnes	not out	1	0
Sam Loxton	bowled	36	0
Don Tallon	caught (Godfrey Evans)	18	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Cyril Washbrook)	23	0
Bill Johnston	caught (Jack Crapp)	3	0
Ernie Toshack	not out	0	0

Alec Bedser 36.00-12-81-4Dick Pollard 32.00-9-53-3Bill Edrich 7.00-3-27-1Norman Yardley 4.00-0-12-0Jack Young 14.00-5-36-1

England, 157 (3 wkts)

Cyril Washbrook	not out	85	0
Unknown #829	caught (Don Tallon)	0	0
Bill Edrich	run out	53	0
Denis Compton	caught (Keith Miller)	0	0
Jack Crapp	not out	19	0
Tom Dollery	did not bat	0	0
Norman Yardley	did not bat	0	0
Godfrey Evans	did not bat	0	0
Alec Bedser	did not bat	0	0
Dick Pollard	did not bat	0	0
Jack Young	did not bat	0	0

Ray Lindwall 14.00-4-37-1Bill Johnston 14.00-3-34-0Sam Loxton 8.00-2-29-0Ernie Toshack 12.00-5-26-1Ian Johnson 7.00-3-16-0Keith Miller 14.00-7-15-0

Australia, 90 (1 wkts)

Arthur Morris	not out	54	0
Ian Johnson	caught (Jack Crapp)	6	0
Donald Bradman	not out	30	146
Lindsay Hassett	did not bat	0	0
Keith Miller	did not bat	0	0
Sid Barnes	did not bat	0	0
Sam Loxton	did not bat	0	0
Don Tallon	did not bat	0	0
Ray Lindwall	did not bat	0	0
Bill Johnston	did not bat	0	0
Ernie Toshack	did not bat	0	0

Alec Bedser 19.00-12-27-0Dick Pollard 10.00-8-6-0Bill Edrich 2.00-0-8-0Jack Young 21.00-12-31-1Denis Compton 9.00-3-18-0

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