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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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New Zealand v Australia Only Test

Australia tour of New Zealand - 1946 (1945/46) · Basin Reserve, Wellington · 29 March 1946 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by an innings and 103 runs

Australia won by an innings and 103 runs. Bill Brown top-scored with 67 for Australia.

New Zealand ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1946 TESTS Basin Reserve ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 39 (10 wkts)

Walter Hadlee	caught (Keith Miller)	6	0
Mac Anderson	bowled	4	0
Verdun Scott	caught (Sid Barnes)	14	0
Merv Wallace	caught (Sid Barnes)	10	0
Eric Tindill	bowled	1	0
Gordon Rowe	bowled	0	0
Len Butterfield	lbw	0	0
Don McRae	caught (Lindsay Hassett)	0	0
Ces Burke	lbw	1	0
Jack Cowie	stumping (Don Tallon)	2	0
Don Cleverley	not out	1	0

Ray Lindwall 8.00-1-13-1Ernie Toshack 19.00-13-12-4Bill O'Reilly 12.00-5-14-5

Australia, 189 (8 wkts)

Bill Brown	caught (Gordon Rowe)	67	0
Ken Meuleman	bowled	0	0
Sid Barnes	bowled	54	0
Keith Miller	caught (Walter Hadlee)	30	0
Lindsay Hassett	caught (Eric Tindill)	19	0
Colin McCool	caught (Walter Hadlee)	7	0
Ian Johnson	not out	7	0
Don Tallon	caught (Verdun Scott)	5	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Mac Anderson)	0	0
Bill O'Reilly	did not bat	0	0
Ernie Toshack	did not bat	0	0

Don McRae 14.00-3-44-0Jack Cowie 21.00-8-40-6Don Cleverley 15.00-1-51-0Len Butterfield 13.00-6-24-0Ces Burke 11.00-2-30-2

New Zealand, 47 (10 wkts)

Walter Hadlee	bowled	3	0
Mac Anderson	bowled	1	0
Verdun Scott	caught (Don Tallon)	4	0
Merv Wallace	run out	14	0
Eric Tindill	lbw	13	0
Gordon Rowe	bowled	0	0
Len Butterfield	lbw	0	0
Ces Burke	bowled	3	0
Don McRae	caught (Ken Meuleman)	8	0
Jack Cowie	caught (Ernie Toshack)	0	0
Don Cleverley	not out	1	0

Ray Lindwall 9.00-3-16-1Ernie Toshack 10.00-5-6-2Bill O'Reilly 7.00-1-19-3Keith Miller 6.00-2-6-2Colin McCool 0.20-0-0-1

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