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 1st Test

England tour of New Zealand - 1930 (1929/30) · Lancaster Park, Christchurch · 10 January 1930 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 8 wickets

England won by 8 wickets. Duleep top-scored with 49 for England.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1930 TESTS Lancaster Park ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 98 (10 wkts)

Stewie Dempster	bowled	11	0
Henry Foley	caught (Duleep)	2	0
Alby Roberts	caught (Duleep)	3	0
Curly Page	caught (Stan Nichols)	1	0
Roger Blunt	not out	45	0
Tom Lowry	lbw	0	2
Ken James	caught (Tich Cornford)	0	1
Ted Badcock	bowled	0	1
George Dickinson	bowled	11	0
Bill Merritt	bowled	19	0
Matt Henderson	bowled	6	0

Stan Nichols 17.00-5-28-4Maurice Allom 19.00-4-38-5Fred Barratt 4.00-1-8-0Stan Worthington 7.10-1-24-1

England, 175 (10 wkts)

Eddie Dawson	caught (Tom Lowry)	7	0
Harold Gilligan	caught (Matt Henderson)	10	0
Duleep	caught (George Dickinson)	49	0
Frank Woolley	caught (Bill Merritt)	31	0
Geoffrey Legge	bowled	36	0
Stan Nichols	caught (George Dickinson)	21	0
Stan Worthington	bowled	0	1
Maurice Turnbull	caught (Bill Merritt)	7	0
Fred Barratt	stumping (Ken James)	4	0
Tich Cornford	caught (Tom Lowry)	6	0
Maurice Allom	not out	4	0

Ted Badcock 18.00-7-29-2George Dickinson 11.00-1-40-1Bill Merritt 13.00-1-48-1Matt Henderson 8.00-1-38-2Roger Blunt 11.10-4-17-3Curly Page 2.00-1-3-1

New Zealand, 112 (10 wkts)

Stewie Dempster	caught (Duleep)	25	0
Henry Foley	caught (Stan Nichols)	2	0
Roger Blunt	caught (Geoffrey Legge)	7	0
Curly Page	stumping (Tich Cornford)	21	0
Tom Lowry	bowled	40	0
Alby Roberts	caught (Stan Worthington)	5	0
Ken James	lbw	0	0
George Dickinson	caught (Fred Barratt)	8	0
Ted Badcock	bowled	0	0
Bill Merritt	bowled	2	0
Matt Henderson	not out	2	0

Stan Nichols 14.30-6-23-2Maurice Allom 15.00-6-17-3Fred Barratt 9.00-2-16-1Stan Worthington 13.00-4-19-2Frank Woolley 9.00-2-37-2

England, 64 (2 wkts)

Eddie Dawson	lbw	10	0
Harold Gilligan	bowled	4	0
Duleep	not out	33	0
Frank Woolley	not out	17	0
Geoffrey Legge	did not bat	0	0
Stan Nichols	did not bat	0	0
Stan Worthington	did not bat	0	0
Maurice Turnbull	did not bat	0	0
Fred Barratt	did not bat	0	0
Tich Cornford	did not bat	0	0
Maurice Allom	did not bat	0	0

George Dickinson 2.00-0-4-0Bill Merritt 2.00-0-7-0Matt Henderson 7.00-2-26-0Roger Blunt 7.00-1-17-2Stewie Dempster 0.50-0-10-0

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