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 Only Test

England tour of New Zealand - 1947 (1946/47) · Lancaster Park, Christchurch · 21 March 1947 · England won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn

Match drawn. Walter Hadlee top-scored with 116 for New Zealand.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1947 TESTS Lancaster Park ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 319 (9 wkts)

Walter Hadlee	caught (Alec Bedser)	116	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (Godfrey Evans)	58	0
Verdun Scott	caught (Wally Hammond)	18	0
Merv Wallace	caught (Godfrey Evans)	9	0
Don Taylor	lbw	12	0
Brun Smith	bowled	18	0
Eric Tindill	bowled	1	0
Roy Scott	bowled	18	0
Jack Cowie	bowled	45	0
Tom Burtt	not out	24	0
Colin Snedden	did not bat	0	0

Alec Bedser 39.00-5-95-4Dick Pollard 29.40-8-73-3Bill Edrich 11.00-2-35-1Doug Wright 13.00-1-61-0Peter Smith 6.00-0-43-0Norman Yardley 4.00-0-12-1

England, 258 (7 wkts)

Cyril Washbrook	caught (Brun Smith)	2	0
Norman Yardley	bowled	22	0
Bill Edrich	caught (Don Taylor)	42	0
Denis Compton	bowled	38	0
Wally Hammond	caught (Bert Sutcliffe)	79	0
Jack Ikin	caught (Eric Tindill)	45	0
Godfrey Evans	not out	21	0
Peter Smith	caught	1	0
Alec Bedser	not out	8	0
Doug Wright	did not bat	0	0
Dick Pollard	did not bat	0	0

Jack Cowie 30.00-4-83-6Roy Scott 23.00-3-74-1Tom Burtt 14.00-1-55-0Colin Snedden 16.00-5-46-0

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