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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England v New Zealand 5th Test

New Zealand tour of England - 1958 (1958) · Kennington Oval, London · 21 August 1958 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. John Reid top-scored with 51* for New Zealand.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1958 TESTS Kennington Oval ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 157 (9 wkts)

Lawrie Miller	caught (Tony Lock)	25	0
John D'Arcy	caught (Arthur Milton)	9	0
Trevor Meale	caught (Tony Lock)	1	0
Bert Sutcliffe	caught (Willie Watson)	11	0
John Reid	bowled	27	0
Bill Playle	bowled	6	0
Tony MacGibbon	bowled	26	0
John Sparling	not out	0	0
Eric Petrie	caught (Arthur Milton)	8	0
Alex Moir	not out	41	0
Bob Blair	run out	3	0

Fred Trueman 16.00-3-41-2Brian Statham 18.00-6-21-1Trevor Bailey 14.00-3-32-2Jim Laker 14.00-3-44-1Tony Lock 13.00-6-19-2

England, 213 (9 wkts)

Peter Richardson	bowled	28	0
Arthur Milton	lbw	36	0
Willie Watson	bowled	10	0
Peter May	caught (Eric Petrie)	9	0
Colin Cowdrey	caught (Bill Playle)	25	0
Trevor Bailey	caught (Eric Petrie)	14	0
Godfrey Evans	caught (Eric Petrie)	12	0
Tony Lock	caught (John Reid)	25	0
Jim Laker	caught (Bob Blair)	15	0
Fred Trueman	not out	39	0
Brian Statham	did not bat	0	0

Bob Blair 26.00-5-85-2Tony MacGibbon 27.00-4-65-4John Reid 7.50-2-11-2Alex Moir 8.00-1-52-1

New Zealand, 86 (3 wkts)

Lawrie Miller	caught (Godfrey Evans)	4	0
John D'Arcy	caught (Tony Lock)	10	0
Trevor Meale	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	3	0
Bert Sutcliffe	not out	18	0
John Reid	not out	51	0
Bill Playle	did not bat	0	0
Tony MacGibbon	did not bat	0	0
John Sparling	did not bat	0	0
Eric Petrie	did not bat	0	0
Alex Moir	did not bat	0	0
Bob Blair	did not bat	0	0

Fred Trueman 6.00-5-3-0Brian Statham 7.00-0-26-1Jim Laker 20.00-10-25-1Tony Lock 18.00-11-20-1Arthur Milton 4.00-2-12-0

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