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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 India 3rd Test

India tour of England - 1946 (1946) · Kennington Oval, London · 17 August 1946 · India won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Vijay Merchant top-scored with 128 for India.

India ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1946 TESTS Kennington Oval ARCHIVE

India, 321 (10 wkts)

Vijay Merchant	run out	128	0
Mushtaq Ali	run out	59	0
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi	bowled	9	0
Lala Amarnath	bowled	8	0
Vijay Hazare	caught (Denis Compton)	11	0
Rusi Modi	bowled	27	0
Abdul Kardar	bowled	1	0
Vinoo Mankad	bowled	42	0
Ranga Sohoni	not out	29	0
C.S. Nayudu	caught (Cyril Washbrook)	4	0
Dattaram Hindlekar	lbw	3	0

Alf Gover 21.00-3-56-1Alec Bedser 32.00-6-60-2Peter Smith 21.00-4-58-1Bill Edrich 19.20-4-68-4James Langridge 29.00-9-64-0Denis Compton 5.00-0-15-0

England, 83 (3 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	lbw	25	0
Cyril Washbrook	caught (Mushtaq Ali)	17	0
Laurie Fishlock	caught (Vijay Merchant)	8	0
Denis Compton	not out	24	0
Wally Hammond	not out	9	0
Bill Edrich	did not bat	0	0
James Langridge	did not bat	0	0
Peter Smith	did not bat	0	0
Godfrey Evans	did not bat	0	0
Alec Bedser	did not bat	0	0
Alf Gover	did not bat	0	0

Lala Amarnath 15.00-6-30-0Ranga Sohoni 4.00-3-2-0Vijay Hazare 2.00-1-4-0Vinoo Mankad 20.00-7-28-2C.S. Nayudu 9.00-2-19-1

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