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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New Zealand v England 1st Test

England tour of New Zealand - 1966 (1965/66) · Lancaster Park, Christchurch · 25 February 1966 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Bevan Congdon top-scored with 104 for New Zealand.

England ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1966 TESTS Lancaster Park ARCHIVE

England, 314 (10 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	caught (Eric Petrie)	4	0
Eric Russell	bowled	30	0
John Edrich	caught (Gary Bartlett)	2	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Grahame Bilby)	0	0
Mike Smith	caught (Tom Puna)	54	0
Peter Parfitt	caught (Bevan Congdon)	54	0
Jim Parks	caught (Eric Petrie)	30	0
David Allen	caught (Murray Chapple)	88	0
David Brown	bowled	44	0
Ken Higgs	not out	8	0
Jeff Jones	bowled	0	1

Dick Motz 31.00-9-83-3Gary Bartlett 33.20-6-63-3Bob Cunis 31.00-9-63-2Tom Puna 18.00-6-54-0Murray Chapple 9.00-3-24-1Vic Pollard 5.00-1-27-1

New Zealand, 326 (10 wkts)

Grahame Bilby	caught (Jim Parks)	28	0
Mike Shrimpton	caught (Jim Parks)	11	0
Bevan Congdon	caught (Mike Smith)	104	0
Barry Sinclair	caught (Ken Higgs)	23	0
Vic Pollard	lbw	23	0
Murray Chapple	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	15	0
Gary Bartlett	caught (Jim Parks)	0	0
Eric Petrie	caught (Jim Parks)	55	0
Dick Motz	caught (Jim Parks)	58	0
Bob Cunis	not out	8	0
Tom Puna	caught (Mike Smith)	1	0

David Brown 30.00-3-80-3Jeff Jones 28.40-9-71-4Ken Higgs 30.00-6-51-3David Allen 40.00-14-80-0Geoff Boycott 12.00-6-30-0Peter Parfitt 3.00-0-14-0

England, 189 (5 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	run out	4	0
Eric Russell	bowled	25	0
John Edrich	lbw	2	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Vic Pollard)	21	0
Mike Smith	caught (Grahame Bilby)	87	0
Peter Parfitt	not out	46	0
Jim Parks	not out	4	0
David Allen	did not bat	0	0
David Brown	did not bat	0	0
Ken Higgs	did not bat	0	0
Jeff Jones	did not bat	0	0

Dick Motz 20.00-6-38-1Gary Bartlett 14.00-2-44-1Bob Cunis 19.00-3-58-1Tom Puna 14.00-6-49-1

New Zealand, 45 (8 wkts)

Grahame Bilby	caught (Jim Parks)	3	0
Mike Shrimpton	caught (Mike Smith)	13	0
Bevan Congdon	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	4	0
Barry Sinclair	caught (Jim Parks)	0	0
Vic Pollard	not out	6	0
Eric Petrie	lbw	1	0
Murray Chapple	caught (Jim Parks)	0	0
Gary Bartlett	caught (David Brown)	0	0
Dick Motz	caught (Eric Russell)	2	0
Bob Cunis	not out	16	0
Tom Puna	did not bat	0	0

David Brown 4.00-2-6-1Jeff Jones 7.00-3-13-0Ken Higgs 9.00-7-5-4David Allen 19.00-15-8-1Peter Parfitt 6.00-3-5-2Jim Parks 3.00-1-8-0

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