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 1st Test

New Zealand tour of England - 1990 (1990) · Trent Bridge, Nottingham · 7 June 1990 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Mike Atherton

Match drawn. Mike Atherton top-scored with 151 for England. Man of the Match: Mike Atherton.

New Zealand ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Trent Bridge ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 196 (10 wkts)

Trevor Franklin	bowled	33	132
John Wright	caught (Alec Stewart)	8	45
Andrew Jones	caught (Alec Stewart)	39	108
Martin Crowe	bowled	59	94
Mark Greatbatch	bowled	1	8
Mark Priest	caught (Jack Russell)	26	57
Martin Snedden	caught (Graham Gooch)	0	29
John Bracewell	caught (Graham Gooch)	28	38
Richard Hadlee	bowled	0	8
Ian Smith	not out	2	10
Danny Morrison	lbw	0	6

Gladstone Small 29.00-9-49-2Devon Malcolm 19.00-7-48-2Eddie Hemmings 19.00-6-47-1Phil DeFreitas 22.00-6-53-5

England, 337 (9 wkts)

Graham Gooch	lbw	0	1
Mike Atherton	caught (Martin Snedden)	151	382
Alec Stewart	caught (Ian Smith)	27	45
Allan Lamb	lbw	0	3
Robin Smith	caught (Ian Smith)	55	134
Neil Fairbrother	caught (Trevor Franklin)	19	48
Jack Russell	caught (Martin Snedden)	28	120
Phil DeFreitas	lbw	14	35
Gladstone Small	caught (Martin Crowe)	26	36
Eddie Hemmings	not out	13	21
Devon Malcolm	not out	4	9

Richard Hadlee 33.00-6-89-4Danny Morrison 22.00-3-96-1Martin Snedden 36.00-17-54-1John Bracewell 35.00-8-75-2Mark Priest 12.00-4-26-1

New Zealand, 36 (2 wkts)

Trevor Franklin	not out	22	59
John Wright	caught (Jack Russell)	1	14
Andrew Jones	caught (Jack Russell)	13	28
Danny Morrison	not out	0	2
Martin Crowe	did not bat	0	0
Mark Greatbatch	did not bat	0	0
Mark Priest	did not bat	0	0
Martin Snedden	did not bat	0	0
John Bracewell	did not bat	0	0
Richard Hadlee	did not bat	0	0
Ian Smith	did not bat	0	0

Gladstone Small 6.00-2-14-1Devon Malcolm 7.00-2-22-0Eddie Hemmings 2.00-2-0-0Phil DeFreitas 2.00-2-0-1

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