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 India 1st Test

India tour of England - 1959 (1959) · Trent Bridge, Nottingham · 4 June 1959 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by an innings and 59 runs

England won by an innings and 59 runs. Peter May top-scored with 106 for England.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1959 TESTS Trent Bridge ARCHIVE

England, 399 (10 wkts)

Arthur Milton	bowled	9	0
Ken Taylor	lbw	24	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Chandu Borde)	5	0
Peter May	caught (Nana Joshi)	106	0
Ken Barrington	bowled	56	0
Martin Horton	caught (Bapu Nadkarni)	58	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (Polly Umrigar)	73	73
Fred Trueman	bowled	28	0
Brian Statham	not out	29	0
Tommy Greenhough	caught (Datta Gaekwad)	0	0
Alan Moss	caught (Pankaj Roy)	11	0

Ramakant Desai 33.00-7-127-1Surendra Nath 24.00-8-59-2Subhash Gupte 38.10-11-102-4Bapu Nadkarni 28.10-15-48-2Chandu Borde 20.00-4-63-1

India, 197 (9 wkts)

Pankaj Roy	bowled	54	0
Nari Contractor	caught (Ken Barrington)	15	0
Polly Umrigar	bowled	21	0
Vijay Manjrekar	lbw	17	0
Chandu Borde	not out	15	0
Datta Gaekwad	caught (Godfrey Evans)	33	0
Bapu Nadkarni	lbw	15	0
Nana Joshi	lbw	21	0
Subhash Gupte	caught (Ken Taylor)	2	0
Surendra Nath	not out	4	0
Ramakant Desai	bowled	0	0

Brian Statham 23.50-11-46-2Fred Trueman 24.00-9-45-4Alan Moss 24.00-11-33-2Tommy Greenhough 26.00-7-58-1Martin Horton 5.00-0-15-0

India, 156 (9 wkts)

Pankaj Roy	caught (Fred Trueman)	49	0
Nari Contractor	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	0	0
Polly Umrigar	bowled	20	0
Vijay Manjrekar	lbw	44	0
Datta Gaekwad	caught (Martin Horton)	31	0
Bapu Nadkarni	bowled	1	0
Nana Joshi	lbw	1	0
Subhash Gupte	caught (Peter May)	8	0
Surendra Nath	not out	1	0
Ramakant Desai	caught (Peter May)	1	0
Chandu Borde	did not bat	0	0

Brian Statham 21.00-10-31-5Fred Trueman 22.30-10-44-2Alan Moss 12.00-7-13-0Tommy Greenhough 23.00-5-48-2Martin Horton 19.00-11-20-0

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