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 - 1966 (1965/66) · Carisbrook, Dunedin · 4 March 1966 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Colin Cowdrey top-scored with 89* for England.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1966 TESTS Carisbrook ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 184 (10 wkts)

Grahame Bilby	caught (John Murray)	3	0
Mike Shrimpton	caught (Geoff Boycott)	38	0
Bevan Congdon	caught (John Murray)	0	0
Barry Sinclair	bowled	33	0
Vic Pollard	caught (John Murray)	8	0
Ross Morgan	caught (John Murray)	0	1
Gary Bartlett	caught (Peter Parfitt)	6	0
Eric Petrie	caught (Mike Smith)	28	0
Dick Motz	caught (Ken Higgs)	57	0
Bob Cunis	caught (Geoff Boycott)	8	0
Tom Puna	not out	3	0

Jeff Jones 26.00-11-46-3Ken Higgs 20.00-6-29-3Barry Knight 32.00-14-41-2David Allen 27.40-9-68-2

England, 236 (8 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	bowled	5	0
Eric Russell	bowled	11	0
John Edrich	caught (Grahame Bilby)	36	0
Colin Cowdrey	not out	89	0
Mike Smith	caught (Vic Pollard)	20	0
Peter Parfitt	caught (Vic Pollard)	4	0
John Murray	caught (Barry Sinclair)	50	0
Barry Knight	caught (Gary Bartlett)	12	0
David Allen	bowled	9	0
Ken Higgs	not out	0	0
Jeff Jones	did not bat	0	0

Dick Motz 32.00-7-76-2Gary Bartlett 29.00-4-70-2Bob Cunis 28.00-7-49-2Tom Puna 14.00-2-40-2Vic Pollard 1.00-0-1-0

New Zealand, 129 (9 wkts)

Grahame Bilby	caught (Peter Parfitt)	21	0
Vic Pollard	bowled	2	0
Bevan Congdon	bowled	19	0
Barry Sinclair	caught (Barry Knight)	39	0
Ross Morgan	caught (Mike Smith)	3	0
Mike Shrimpton	bowled	0	4
Gary Bartlett	caught (Barry Knight)	4	0
Eric Petrie	not out	13	0
Dick Motz	bowled	1	0
Bob Cunis	lbw	9	0
Tom Puna	not out	18	0

Jeff Jones 15.00-4-32-2Ken Higgs 13.00-7-12-2Barry Knight 3.00-1-3-0David Allen 33.00-17-46-4Peter Parfitt 17.00-6-30-1John Edrich 1.00-0-6-0

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