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 2nd Test

England tour of New Zealand - 1959 (1958/59) · Eden Park, Auckland · 14 March 1959 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Peter May top-scored with 124* for England.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1959 TESTS Eden Park ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 172 (10 wkts)

Bruce Bolton	run out	0	11
Roger Harris	caught (Roy Swetman)	12	65
Noel McGregor	hitwicket	1	19
John Guy	bowled	1	19
Bert Sutcliffe	bowled	61	131
John Reid	bowled	3	44
John Sparling	caught (Roy Swetman)	25	91
Alex Moir	caught (Tom Graveney)	10	32
Eric Petrie	caught (Fred Trueman)	13	80
Bob Blair	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	22	31
Ken Hough	not out	24	14

Fred Trueman 26.00-12-46-3Frank Tyson 20.00-9-50-1Ted Dexter 19.00-8-23-3Tony Lock 20.30-12-29-2John Mortimore 4.00-1-24-0

England, 301 (7 wkts)

Peter Richardson	caught (Bruce Bolton)	67	0
Willie Watson	bowled	11	0
Tom Graveney	bowled	46	0
Peter May	not out	124	0
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	5	0
Ted Dexter	caught (Eric Petrie)	1	0
John Mortimore	bowled	9	0
Roy Swetman	run out	17	0
Fred Trueman	not out	21	0
Tony Lock	did not bat	0	0
Frank Tyson	did not bat	0	0

Bob Blair 27.00-6-69-0Ken Hough 38.00-12-79-3John Reid 4.00-1-19-0John Sparling 20.00-7-48-0Alex Moir 28.00-4-84-3Bert Sutcliffe 1.00-0-2-0

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