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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 Pakistan 2nd Test

Pakistan tour of England - 1954 (1954) · Trent Bridge, Nottingham · 1 July 1954 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat

England won by an innings and 129 runs

England won by an innings and 129 runs. Denis Compton top-scored with 278 for England.

Pakistan ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1954 TESTS Trent Bridge ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 146 (10 wkts)

Hanif Mohammad	lbw	19	0
Alimuddin	bowled	4	0
Waqar Hasan	bowled	7	0
Maqsood Ahmed	caught (Godfrey Evans)	6	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	bowled	11	0
Abdul Kardar	caught (Denis Compton)	28	0
Fazal Mahmood	caught (David Sheppard)	14	0
Ebbu Ghazali	bowled	18	0
Aslam Khokhar	bowled	16	0
Khalid Hasan	caught (Peter May)	10	0
Khan Mohammad	not out	13	0

Alec Bedser 21.00-8-30-2Brian Statham 18.00-3-38-2Bob Appleyard 17.00-5-51-5Trevor Bailey 3.00-0-18-0Johnny Wardle 6.00-3-9-1

England, 554 (6 wkts)

David Sheppard	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	37	0
Reg Simpson	bowled	101	0
Peter May	bowled	0	0
Denis Compton	bowled	278	0
Tom Graveney	caught (Maqsood Ahmed)	84	0
Trevor Bailey	not out	36	0
Godfrey Evans	bowled	4	0
Johnny Wardle	not out	14	0
Alec Bedser	did not bat	0	0
Brian Statham	did not bat	0	0
Bob Appleyard	did not bat	0	0

Fazal Mahmood 47.00-7-148-0Khan Mohammad 40.00-3-155-3Abdul Kardar 28.00-4-110-1Khalid Hasan 21.00-1-116-2Maqsood Ahmed 3.00-0-25-0

Pakistan, 265 (10 wkts)

Hanif Mohammad	caught (Godfrey Evans)	51	0
Alimuddin	bowled	18	0
Waqar Hasan	caught (Godfrey Evans)	7	0
Maqsood Ahmed	caught (Brian Statham)	69	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	lbw	33	0
Abdul Kardar	caught (Tom Graveney)	4	0
Fazal Mahmood	bowled	36	0
Ebbu Ghazali	caught (Brian Statham)	14	0
Aslam Khokhar	caught (David Sheppard)	18	0
Khan Mohammad	caught (Denis Compton)	8	0
Khalid Hasan	not out	7	0

Alec Bedser 30.00-11-83-2Brian Statham 20.00-3-66-3Bob Appleyard 30.40-8-72-2Johnny Wardle 32.00-17-44-3

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