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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 West Indies 2nd Test

West Indies tour of England - 1928 (1928) · Old Trafford, Manchester · 21 July 1928 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

England won by an innings and 30 runs

England won by an innings and 30 runs. Douglas Jardine top-scored with 83 for England.

West Indies ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1928 TESTS Old Trafford ARCHIVE

West Indies, 189 (10 wkts)

George Challenor	run out	24	0
Clifford Roach	lbw	50	0
Freddie Martin	run out	21	0
Wilton St Hill	caught (Vallance Jupp)	3	0
Teddy Hoad	lbw	13	0
Karl Nunes	bowled	17	0
Baron Constantine	lbw	4	3
Snuffy Browne	caught (Jack White)	23	0
Tommy Scott	caught (Percy Chapman)	32	0
George Francis	bowled	1	0
Herman Griffith	not out	1	0

Maurice Tate 35.00-13-68-1Wally Hammond 6.00-2-16-0Tich Freeman 33.40-18-54-5Vallance Jupp 18.00-5-39-2Jack White 13.00-6-12-0

England, 326 (9 wkts)

Jack Hobbs	caught (Wilton St Hill)	53	0
Herbert Sutcliffe	caught (Karl Nunes)	54	0
Ernest Tyldesley	bowled	3	0
Wally Hammond	caught (Clifford Roach)	63	0
Douglas Jardine	run out	83	0
Percy Chapman	not out	3	0
Maurice Tate	bowled	28	0
Vallance Jupp	caught (Baron Constantine)	12	0
Jack White	not out	21	0
Harry Elliott	lbw	6	0
Tich Freeman	lbw	0	0

George Francis 23.00-4-68-0Baron Constantine 25.00-7-89-1Snuffy Browne 25.00-2-72-2Herman Griffith 25.00-7-69-3Tommy Scott 9.20-0-28-2

West Indies, 113 (10 wkts)

George Challenor	caught (Harry Elliott)	0	0
Clifford Roach	caught (Douglas Jardine)	0	0
Freddie Martin	caught (Wally Hammond)	32	0
Wilton St Hill	caught (Wally Hammond)	38	0
Teddy Hoad	lbw	4	0
George Francis	caught (Maurice Tate)	0	0
Karl Nunes	caught	11	0
Baron Constantine	caught (Herbert Sutcliffe)	18	0
Snuffy Browne	caught (Harry Elliott)	7	0
Tommy Scott	not out	3	0
Herman Griffith	caught (Wally Hammond)	0	1

Maurice Tate 9.00-4-10-1Wally Hammond 6.00-0-23-1Tich Freeman 18.00-5-39-5Jack White 14.30-4-41-3

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