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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 5th Test

Australia tour of England - 1964 (1964) · Kennington Oval, London · 13 August 1964 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Geoff Boycott top-scored with 113 for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1964 TESTS Kennington Oval ARCHIVE

England, 179 (10 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	bowled	30	58
Bob Barber	bowled	24	44
Ted Dexter	caught (Brian Booth)	23	66
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Wally Grout)	20	62
Ken Barrington	caught (Bob Simpson)	47	83
Peter Parfitt	bowled	3	21
Jim Parks	caught (Bob Simpson)	10	32
Fred Titmus	caught (Wally Grout)	8	27
Fred Trueman	caught (Ian Redpath)	14	23
Tom Cartwright	caught (Wally Grout)	0	5
John Price	not out	0	5

Graham McKenzie 26.00-6-87-3Grahame Corling 14.00-2-32-1Neil Hawke 25.40-8-47-6Tom Veivers 6.00-1-13-0

Australia, 374 (10 wkts)

Bob Simpson	caught (Ted Dexter)	24	64
Bill Lawry	caught (Fred Trueman)	94	320
Norm O'Neill	caught (Peter Parfitt)	11	33
Peter Burge	lbw	25	62
Brian Booth	caught (Fred Trueman)	74	199
Ian Redpath	bowled	45	180
Wally Grout	bowled	20	38
Tom Veivers	not out	67	123
Graham McKenzie	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	0	1
Neil Hawke	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	14	35
Grahame Corling	caught (Peter Parfitt)	0	12

Fred Trueman 33.30-6-87-4John Price 21.00-2-67-1Tom Cartwright 62.00-23-110-3Fred Titmus 42.00-20-51-1Bob Barber 6.00-1-23-0Ted Dexter 13.00-1-36-1

England, 370 (4 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	caught (Ian Redpath)	113	311
Bob Barber	lbw	29	99
Ted Dexter	caught (Bob Simpson)	25	32
Fred Titmus	bowled	56	186
Colin Cowdrey	not out	93	216
Ken Barrington	not out	54	133
Peter Parfitt	did not bat	0	0
Jim Parks	did not bat	0	0
Fred Trueman	did not bat	0	0
Tom Cartwright	did not bat	0	0
John Price	did not bat	0	0

Graham McKenzie 38.00-5-112-3Grahame Corling 25.00-4-65-0Neil Hawke 39.00-8-89-0Tom Veivers 47.00-15-90-0Bob Simpson 14.00-7-14-1

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