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 1st Test

Australia tour of England - 1956 (1956) · Trent Bridge, Nottingham · 7 June 1956 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Peter Richardson top-scored with 81 for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1956 TESTS Trent Bridge ARCHIVE

England, 211 (8 wkts)

Peter Richardson	caught (Gil Langley)	81	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Keith Miller)	25	0
Tom Graveney	caught (Ron Archer)	8	0
Peter May	caught (Gil Langley)	73	0
Willie Watson	lbw	0	0
Trevor Bailey	caught (Keith Miller)	14	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (Gil Langley)	0	0
Jim Laker	not out	9	0
Tony Lock	lbw	0	0
Bob Appleyard	not out	1	0
Alan Moss	did not bat	0	0

Ray Lindwall 15.00-4-43-0Keith Miller 33.00-5-69-4Alan Davidson 9.40-1-22-1Ron Archer 31.00-10-51-2Ian Johnson 14.00-7-26-1Jim Burke 1.00-1-0-0

Australia, 145 (9 wkts)

Colin McDonald	lbw	1	0
Jim Burke	caught (Tony Lock)	11	0
Neil Harvey	lbw	64	0
Peter Burge	caught	7	0
Keith Miller	lbw	0	0
Ron Archer	caught (Tony Lock)	33	0
Richie Benaud	bowled	17	0
Ian Johnson	caught (Trevor Bailey)	12	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Trevor Bailey)	0	0
Gil Langley	not out	0	0
Alan Davidson	did not bat	0	0

Alan Moss 4.00-3-1-0Trevor Bailey 3.00-1-8-0Jim Laker 29.10-11-58-4Tony Lock 36.00-16-61-3Bob Appleyard 11.00-4-17-2

England, 180 (3 wkts)

Peter Richardson	caught (Gil Langley)	73	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Gil Langley)	81	0
Willie Watson	caught (Gil Langley)	8	0
Tom Graveney	not out	10	0
Godfrey Evans	not out	8	0
Peter May	did not bat	0	0
Trevor Bailey	did not bat	0	0
Jim Laker	did not bat	0	0
Tony Lock	did not bat	0	0
Bob Appleyard	did not bat	0	0
Alan Moss	did not bat	0	0

Keith Miller 19.00-2-58-2Ron Archer 9.00-0-46-1Ian Johnson 12.00-2-29-0Jim Burke 3.00-1-6-0Richie Benaud 18.00-4-41-0

Australia, 106 (3 wkts)

Colin McDonald	caught (Tony Lock)	6	0
Jim Burke	not out	58	0
Neil Harvey	bowled	3	0
Keith Miller	lbw	4	0
Peter Burge	not out	35	0
Ron Archer	did not bat	0	0
Richie Benaud	did not bat	0	0
Ian Johnson	did not bat	0	0
Ray Lindwall	did not bat	0	0
Gil Langley	did not bat	0	0
Alan Davidson	did not bat	0	0

Trevor Bailey 9.00-3-16-0Jim Laker 30.00-19-29-2Tony Lock 22.00-11-23-1Bob Appleyard 19.00-6-32-0Tom Graveney 6.00-3-6-0

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