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 2nd Test

England tour of New Zealand - 1978 (1977/78) · Lancaster Park, Christchurch · 24 February 1978 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 174 runs

England won by 174 runs. Ian Botham top-scored with 103 for England.

England ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1978 TESTS Lancaster Park ARCHIVE

England, 385 (10 wkts)

Brian Rose	caught (Geoff Howarth)	11	22
Geoff Boycott	lbw	8	31
Derek Randall	caught (Mark Burgess)	0	7
Graham Roope	caught (Mark Burgess)	50	185
Geoff Miller	caught (Bevan Congdon)	89	273
Clive Radley	caught (Warren Lees)	15	46
Ian Botham	caught (Warren Lees)	103	288
Bob Taylor	run out	45	217
Chris Old	bowled	8	12
Phil Edmonds	caught (Warren Lees)	50	70
Bob Willis	not out	6	20

Richard Hadlee 43.00-10-147-4Richard Collinge 26.50-6-89-3Ewen Chatfield 37.00-8-94-1Bevan Congdon 18.00-11-14-0Stephen Boock 21.00-11-41-1

New Zealand, 211 (10 wkts)

John Wright	caught (Phil Edmonds)	4	47
Robert Anderson	bowled	62	162
Geoff Howarth	caught (Phil Edmonds)	5	52
Mark Burgess	caught (Graham Roope)	29	152
Bevan Congdon	lbw	20	64
John Parker	not out	53	165
Warren Lees	caught (Geoff Miller)	0	9
Richard Hadlee	bowled	1	3
Richard Collinge	caught (Phil Edmonds)	32	63
Stephen Boock	caught (Bob Taylor)	2	27
Ewen Chatfield	caught (Phil Edmonds)	3	26

Bob Willis 20.00-5-45-1Chris Old 14.00-4-55-0Ian Botham 24.70-6-73-5Phil Edmonds 34.00-11-38-4

England, 86 (4 wkts)

Brian Rose	caught (Warren Lees)	7	40
Geoff Boycott	run out	26	80
Derek Randall	run out	13	16
Ian Botham	not out	30	31
Chris Old	bowled	1	3
Graham Roope	not out	9	10
Geoff Miller	did not bat	0	0
Clive Radley	did not bat	0	0
Bob Taylor	did not bat	0	0
Phil Edmonds	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Richard Hadlee 6.00-1-17-0Richard Collinge 9.00-2-29-2Ewen Chatfield 5.00-0-22-0Bevan Congdon 2.00-0-18-0

New Zealand, 83 (10 wkts)

John Wright	caught (Graham Roope)	0	8
Robert Anderson	bowled	15	39
Geoff Howarth	caught (Phil Edmonds)	1	19
Mark Burgess	not out	6	13
Bevan Congdon	caught (Ian Botham)	0	5
John Parker	caught (Ian Botham)	16	53
Warren Lees	bowled	0	1
Richard Hadlee	caught (Ian Botham)	39	62
Richard Collinge	caught (Geoff Miller)	0	5
Stephen Boock	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	11
Ewen Chatfield	lbw	6	18

Bob Willis 7.00-2-14-4Chris Old 7.00-4-9-1Ian Botham 7.00-1-38-3Phil Edmonds 6.00-2-22-2

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