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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Australia v West Indies 4th Test

West Indies tour of Australia - 1951 (1951/52) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 31 December 1951 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 1 wicket

Australia won by 1 wicket. Frank Worrell top-scored with 108 for West Indies.

West Indies ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1951 TESTS Melbourne Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

West Indies, 263 (10 wkts)

Kenneth Rickards	bowled	15	0
Jeffrey Stollmeyer	caught (Gil Langley)	7	0
Frank Worrell	bowled	108	0
Everton Weekes	caught (Ian Johnson)	1	0
Gerry Gomez	caught (Gil Langley)	37	0
Robert Christiani	run out	37	0
John Goddard	bowled	21	0
Sammy Guillen	not out	22	0
John Trim	run out	0	0
Sonny Ramadhin	caught (Gil Langley)	1	0
Alf Valentine	caught (Ray Lindwall)	14	0

Ray Lindwall 18.00-2-72-1Keith Miller 19.30-1-60-5Bill Johnston 20.00-1-59-2Doug Ring 9.00-0-43-0Ian Johnson 7.00-0-23-0Graeme Hole 2.00-0-6-0

Australia, 200 (10 wkts)

Jack Moroney	lbw	26	0
Arthur Morris	bowled	6	0
Lindsay Hassett	run out	15	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Sonny Ramadhin)	83	0
Keith Miller	bowled	47	0
Graeme Hole	bowled	2	0
Ray Lindwall	lbw	13	0
Ian Johnson	caught (Sammy Guillen)	1	0
Doug Ring	bowled	6	0
Gil Langley	not out	0	0
Bill Johnston	bowled	1	0

John Trim 12.00-2-34-5Gerry Gomez 13.30-7-25-1Alf Valentine 23.00-8-50-1Sonny Ramadhin 17.00-4-63-2John Goddard 8.00-0-28-0

West Indies, 194 (10 wkts)

Sammy Guillen	caught (Bill Johnston)	0	3
Jeffrey Stollmeyer	lbw	54	0
John Goddard	lbw	0	2
Kenneth Rickards	lbw	22	0
Everton Weekes	lbw	2	0
Robert Christiani	bowled	33	0
Gerry Gomez	bowled	52	0
Frank Worrell	bowled	30	0
John Trim	run out	0	1
Sonny Ramadhin	run out	0	1
Alf Valentine	not out	1	0

Ray Lindwall 17.00-2-59-2Keith Miller 16.00-1-49-2Bill Johnston 14.30-2-51-3Doug Ring 7.00-1-17-0Ian Johnson 5.00-0-18-1

Australia, 242 (9 wkts)

Jack Moroney	lbw	5	0
Arthur Morris	lbw	12	0
Lindsay Hassett	lbw	102	0
Neil Harvey	bowled	33	0
Keith Miller	hitwicket	2	0
Graeme Hole	caught (Gerry Gomez)	13	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Sammy Guillen)	29	0
Ian Johnson	caught (Sammy Guillen)	6	0
Doug Ring	not out	32	0
Gil Langley	lbw	1	0
Bill Johnston	not out	7	0

John Trim 10.00-3-25-0Gerry Gomez 9.00-1-18-0Alf Valentine 30.00-9-88-5Sonny Ramadhin 39.00-15-93-3Frank Worrell 9.00-1-18-1

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