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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 1st Test

India tour of England - 1952 (1952) · Headingley, Leeds · 5 June 1952 · India won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 7 wickets

England won by 7 wickets. Vijay Manjrekar top-scored with 133 for India.

India ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1952 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

India, 285 (10 wkts)

Pankaj Roy	stumping (Godfrey Evans)	19	0
Datta Gaekwad	bowled	9	0
Polly Umrigar	caught (Godfrey Evans)	8	0
Vijay Hazare	caught (Godfrey Evans)	89	0
Vijay Manjrekar	caught (Allan Watkins)	133	0
Dattu Phadkar	caught (Allan Watkins)	12	0
Chingleput Gopinath	bowled	0	0
M.K.Mantri	not out	13	0
Gulabrai Ramchand	caught (Allan Watkins)	0	0
Sadu Shinde	caught (Peter May)	2	0
Ghulam Ahmed	bowled	0	0

Alec Bedser 33.00-13-38-2Fred Trueman 26.00-6-89-3Jim Laker 22.30-9-39-4Allan Watkins 11.00-1-21-0Roly Jenkins 27.00-6-78-1Denis Compton 7.00-1-20-0

England, 308 (10 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	caught (Gulabrai Ramchand)	10	0
Reg Simpson	caught (Gulabrai Ramchand)	23	0
Peter May	bowled	16	0
Denis Compton	caught (Gulabrai Ramchand)	14	0
Tom Graveney	bowled	71	0
Allan Watkins	lbw	48	0
Godfrey Evans	lbw	66	0
Roly Jenkins	caught (M.K.Mantri)	38	0
Jim Laker	bowled	15	0
Alec Bedser	bowled	7	0
Fred Trueman	not out	0	0

Dattu Phadkar 24.00-7-54-1Gulabrai Ramchand 36.20-11-61-2Ghulam Ahmed 63.00-24-100-5Vijay Hazare 20.00-9-22-1Sadu Shinde 22.00-5-71-1

India, 158 (10 wkts)

Pankaj Roy	caught (Denis Compton)	0	0
Datta Gaekwad	caught (Jim Laker)	0	0
M.K.Mantri	bowled	0	0
Polly Umrigar	caught (Roly Jenkins)	9	0
Vijay Manjrekar	bowled	0	1
Vijay Hazare	bowled	56	0
Dattu Phadkar	bowled	64	0
Chingleput Gopinath	lbw	8	0
Gulabrai Ramchand	stumping (Godfrey Evans)	0	0
Sadu Shinde	not out	7	0
Ghulam Ahmed	stumping (Godfrey Evans)	14	0

Alec Bedser 21.00-9-32-2Fred Trueman 9.00-1-27-4Jim Laker 13.00-4-17-0Allan Watkins 11.00-2-32-0Roly Jenkins 13.00-2-50-4

England, 120 (3 wkts)

Leonard Hutton	bowled	10	0
Reg Simpson	caught (M.K.Mantri)	51	0
Peter May	caught (Dattu Phadkar)	4	0
Denis Compton	not out	35	0
Tom Graveney	not out	20	0
Allan Watkins	did not bat	0	0
Godfrey Evans	did not bat	0	0
Roly Jenkins	did not bat	0	0
Jim Laker	did not bat	0	0
Alec Bedser	did not bat	0	0
Fred Trueman	did not bat	0	0

Dattu Phadkar 11.00-2-21-1Gulabrai Ramchand 17.00-3-43-0Ghulam Ahmed 22.00-8-37-2Vijay Hazare 3.00-0-11-0Sadu Shinde 2.00-0-8-0

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