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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 New Zealand 1st Test

New Zealand tour of England - 1931 (1931) · Lord's, London · 27 June 1931 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Les Ames top-scored with 137 for England.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1931 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 208 (10 wkts)

Jackie Mills	bowled	34	0
Stewie Dempster	lbw	53	0
'Dad' Weir	lbw	37	0
Jack Kerr	stumping (Les Ames)	2	0
Roger Blunt	caught (Wally Hammond)	7	0
Curly Page	bowled	23	0
Tom Lowry	caught (Wally Hammond)	1	0
Ian Cromb	caught (Les Ames)	20	0
Cyril Allcott	caught (Wally Hammond)	13	0
Bill Merritt	caught (Douglas Jardine)	17	0
Ken James	not out	1	0

Bill Voce 10.00-1-40-0Gubby Allen 15.00-2-45-1Wally Hammond 10.30-5-8-1Ian Peebles 26.00-3-77-5Walter Robins 13.00-3-38-3

England, 431 (10 wkts)

Fred Bakewell	lbw	9	0
Unknown #572	caught (Curly Page)	0	0
Wally Hammond	bowled	7	0
Duleep	caught (Jack Kerr)	25	0
Douglas Jardine	caught (Roger Blunt)	38	0
Frank Woolley	lbw	80	0
Les Ames	caught (Ken James)	137	0
Ian Peebles	stumping (Ken James)	0	0
Gubby Allen	caught (Tom Lowry)	122	0
Walter Robins	caught (Tom Lowry)	12	0
Bill Voce	not out	1	0

Ian Cromb 37.00-7-113-3'Dad' Weir 8.00-1-38-3Roger Blunt 46.00-9-124-0Cyril Allcott 17.00-3-34-0Bill Merritt 23.00-2-104-4Curly Page 3.00-0-18-0

New Zealand, 433 (9 wkts)

Stewie Dempster	bowled	120	0
Jackie Mills	bowled	0	2
'Dad' Weir	bowled	40	0
Curly Page	caught (Ian Peebles)	104	0
Roger Blunt	bowled	96	0
Jack Kerr	lbw	0	0
Ian Cromb	caught (Bill Voce)	14	0
Bill Merritt	bowled	5	0
Tom Lowry	bowled	34	0
Cyril Allcott	not out	20	0
Ken James	did not bat	0	0

Bill Voce 32.00-11-60-0Gubby Allen 25.00-8-47-2Wally Hammond 21.00-2-50-1Ian Peebles 42.40-6-150-4Walter Robins 37.00-5-126-2

England, 144 (5 wkts)

Fred Bakewell	caught (Roger Blunt)	27	0
Unknown #572	caught (Roger Blunt)	34	0
Wally Hammond	run out	46	0
Duleep	caught (Ken James)	11	0
Frank Woolley	bowled	9	0
Les Ames	not out	17	0
Douglas Jardine	not out	0	0
Ian Peebles	did not bat	0	0
Gubby Allen	did not bat	0	0
Walter Robins	did not bat	0	0
Bill Voce	did not bat	0	0

Ian Cromb 25.00-5-44-2'Dad' Weir 5.00-1-18-0Roger Blunt 14.00-5-54-1Cyril Allcott 10.00-2-26-1Bill Merritt 1.00-0-2-0

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