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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India v New Zealand 5th Test

New Zealand tour of India - 1955 (1955/56) · Corporation Stadium, Chennai · 6 January 1956 · India won the toss and chose to bat

India won by an innings and 109 runs

India won by an innings and 109 runs. Vinoo Mankad top-scored with 231 for India.

India ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1956 TESTS Corporation Stadium ARCHIVE

India, 504 (3 wkts)

Vinoo Mankad	caught (Harry Cave)	231	0
Pankaj Roy	bowled	173	0
Polly Umrigar	not out	79	0
Gulabrai Ramchand	lbw	21	0
Vijay Manjrekar	not out	0	0
AG Kripal Singh	did not bat	0	0
Nari Contractor	did not bat	0	0
Dattu Phadkar	did not bat	0	0
Naren Tamhane	did not bat	0	0
Jasubhai Patel	did not bat	0	0
Subhash Gupte	did not bat	0	0

Johnny Hayes 31.00-2-94-0Tony MacGibbon 38.00-9-97-1Harry Cave 44.00-16-94-0John Reid 7.00-3-10-0Alex Moir 26.00-1-114-1Matt Poore 31.00-5-95-1

New Zealand, 193 (9 wkts)

Gordon Leggat	lbw	31	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (Polly Umrigar)	47	0
John Reid	bowled	44	0
John Guy	caught (Polly Umrigar)	3	0
Noel McGregor	caught (Dattu Phadkar)	10	0
Tony MacGibbon	caught (Dattu Phadkar)	0	0
Matt Poore	lbw	15	0
Alex Moir	caught (Polly Umrigar)	30	0
Harry Cave	caught (Pankaj Roy)	9	0
Trevor McMahon	not out	4	0
Johnny Hayes	did not bat	0	0

Dattu Phadkar 15.00-4-25-1Gulabrai Ramchand 4.00-3-1-0Subhash Gupte 49.00-26-72-5Jasubhai Patel 45.00-23-63-3Vinoo Mankad 19.00-10-32-0

New Zealand, 209 (9 wkts)

Gordon Leggat	caught (Naren Tamhane)	61	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (Subhash Gupte)	40	0
John Guy	stumping (Naren Tamhane)	9	0
John Reid	caught (Polly Umrigar)	63	0
Matt Poore	bowled	1	0
Noel McGregor	caught (Subhash Gupte)	12	0
Tony MacGibbon	lbw	0	0
Alex Moir	caught (Gulabrai Ramchand)	1	0
Harry Cave	not out	22	0
Trevor McMahon	bowled	0	0
Johnny Hayes	did not bat	0	0

Dattu Phadkar 28.00-13-33-0Gulabrai Ramchand 8.00-5-10-0Subhash Gupte 36.30-14-73-4Jasubhai Patel 18.00-7-28-1Vinoo Mankad 40.00-14-65-4

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