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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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Australia v West Indies 1st Test

West Indies tour of Australia - 1951 (1951/52) · Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane · 9 November 1951 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 3 wickets

Australia won by 3 wickets. Everton Weekes top-scored with 70 for West Indies.

West Indies ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1951 TESTS Brisbane Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

West Indies, 215 (10 wkts)

Allan Rae	bowled	0	3
Jeffrey Stollmeyer	caught (Gil Langley)	8	0
Frank Worrell	bowled	37	0
Everton Weekes	caught (Gil Langley)	35	0
Robert Christiani	caught (Doug Ring)	22	0
Clyde Walcott	lbw	0	1
Roy Marshall	bowled	28	0
Gerry Gomez	caught (Gil Langley)	22	0
John Goddard	bowled	45	0
Sonny Ramadhin	not out	16	0
Alf Valentine	stumping (Gil Langley)	2	0

Ray Lindwall 20.00-4-62-4Keith Miller 14.00-3-40-1Bill Johnston 17.00-2-49-2Doug Ring 14.00-2-52-2Ian Johnson 5.00-1-12-1

Australia, 222 (10 wkts)

Ken Archer	caught (John Goddard)	20	0
Arthur Morris	caught (Allan Rae)	33	0
Lindsay Hassett	bowled	6	0
Neil Harvey	lbw	18	0
Keith Miller	caught (Alf Valentine)	46	0
Graeme Hole	lbw	20	0
Ray Lindwall	bowled	61	0
Ian Johnson	not out	16	0
Doug Ring	caught (Clyde Walcott)	0	1
Gil Langley	lbw	0	0
Bill Johnston	run out	2	0

Frank Worrell 8.00-0-38-1Gerry Gomez 7.50-2-10-2Alf Valentine 25.00-4-99-5Sonny Ramadhin 24.00-5-75-1

West Indies, 235 (10 wkts)

Allan Rae	lbw	25	0
Jeffrey Stollmeyer	stumping (Gil Langley)	10	0
Frank Worrell	stumping (Gil Langley)	20	0
Everton Weekes	caught (Graeme Hole)	70	0
John Goddard	caught (Doug Ring)	0	1
Robert Christiani	bowled	6	0
Gerry Gomez	caught (Neil Harvey)	55	0
Clyde Walcott	stumping (Gil Langley)	4	0
Roy Marshall	caught (Lindsay Hassett)	30	0
Sonny Ramadhin	not out	2	0
Alf Valentine	caught (Arthur Morris)	13	0

Ray Lindwall 10.00-0-36-0Keith Miller 8.00-2-19-1Bill Johnston 16.00-4-41-1Doug Ring 16.00-2-80-6Ian Johnson 18.00-1-56-2Graeme Hole 1.00-0-3-0

Australia, 221 (7 wkts)

Ken Archer	bowled	4	0
Arthur Morris	caught (Gerry Gomez)	48	0
Lindsay Hassett	lbw	35	0
Neil Harvey	bowled	42	0
Keith Miller	bowled	4	0
Graeme Hole	not out	45	0
Ray Lindwall	bowled	29	0
Ian Johnson	bowled	8	0
Doug Ring	not out	6	0
Gil Langley	did not bat	0	0
Bill Johnston	did not bat	0	0

Frank Worrell 2.00-1-2-0Gerry Gomez 3.00-0-12-1Alf Valentine 40.70-6-117-1Sonny Ramadhin 40.00-9-90-5

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