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 New Zealand 1st Test

New Zealand tour of England - 1958 (1958) · Edgbaston, Birmingham · 5 June 1958 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 205 runs

England won by 205 runs. Peter Richardson top-scored with 100 for England.

England ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1958 TESTS Edgbaston ARCHIVE

England, 212 (10 wkts)

Peter Richardson	lbw	4	0
Mike Smith	lbw	0	3
Tom Graveney	caught (Jack Alabaster)	7	0
Peter May	caught (Eric Petrie)	84	0
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	81	0
Trevor Bailey	caught (Eric Petrie)	2	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (Eric Petrie)	2	0
Tony Lock	lbw	4	0
Fred Trueman	bowled	0	0
Jim Laker	not out	11	0
Peter Loader	bowled	17	0

Johnny Hayes 15.00-2-57-1Tony MacGibbon 27.00-11-64-5Harry Cave 12.00-2-29-0John Reid 6.00-3-16-0Jack Alabaster 15.50-4-46-4

New Zealand, 94 (10 wkts)

Lawrie Miller	lbw	7	0
John D'Arcy	caught (Godfrey Evans)	19	0
Noel Harford	bowled	9	0
John Reid	bowled	7	0
Bill Playle	bowled	4	0
Trevor Meale	lbw	7	0
Tony MacGibbon	caught (Godfrey Evans)	5	0
Eric Petrie	lbw	1	0
Jack Alabaster	bowled	9	0
Harry Cave	not out	12	0
Johnny Hayes	run out	14	0

Fred Trueman 21.00-8-31-5Peter Loader 21.30-6-37-1Trevor Bailey 20.00-9-17-2Tony Lock 2.00-2-0-0Jim Laker 5.00-2-9-1

England, 213 (6 wkts)

Peter Richardson	caught (Harry Cave)	100	0
Mike Smith	caught (Eric Petrie)	7	0
Tom Graveney	caught (Eric Petrie)	19	0
Peter May	caught (Eric Petrie)	11	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (John Reid)	70	0
Trevor Bailey	not out	6	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (John Reid)	0	0
Tony Lock	did not bat	0	0
Fred Trueman	did not bat	0	0
Jim Laker	did not bat	0	0
Peter Loader	did not bat	0	0

Johnny Hayes 20.00-3-51-1Tony MacGibbon 24.00-8-41-3Harry Cave 28.20-9-70-2John Reid 9.00-2-18-0Jack Alabaster 15.00-7-33-0

New Zealand, 135 (10 wkts)

Lawrie Miller	bowled	8	0
John D'Arcy	caught (Fred Trueman)	25	0
Bill Playle	caught (Trevor Bailey)	8	0
Noel Harford	caught (Tom Graveney)	23	0
Trevor Meale	caught (Mike Smith)	10	0
John Reid	bowled	13	0
Harry Cave	bowled	1	0
Tony MacGibbon	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	26	0
Jack Alabaster	caught (Jim Laker)	11	0
Eric Petrie	not out	5	0
Johnny Hayes	caught (Trevor Bailey)	5	0

Fred Trueman 17.00-5-33-1Peter Loader 23.00-11-40-3Trevor Bailey 20.00-9-23-2Tony Lock 8.30-3-25-3Jim Laker 9.00-4-14-1

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