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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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West Indies v England 1st Test

England tour of West Indies - 1935 (1934/35) · Kensington Oval, Bridgetown · 8 January 1935 · England won the toss and chose to bowl

England won by 4 wickets

England won by 4 wickets. George Headley top-scored with 44 for West Indies.

West Indies ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1935 TESTS Kensington Oval ARCHIVE

West Indies, 98 (10 wkts)

Clifford Roach	caught (George Paine)	9	0
George Carew	caught (Errol Holmes)	0	0
George Headley	run out	44	0
Charles Jones	caught (Maurice Leyland)	3	0
Derek Sealy	caught (George Paine)	0	0
Jackie Grant	caught (Patsy Hendren)	4	0
Rolph Grant	caught (Wally Hammond)	5	0
Leslie Hylton	stumping (Les Ames)	15	0
Cyril Christiani	not out	9	0
Puss Achong	stumping (Les Ames)	0	0
Manny Martindale	caught (Maurice Leyland)	9	0

Ken Farnes 15.00-4-40-4Jim Smith 7.00-3-8-0Eric Hollies 16.00-4-36-2George Paine 9.00-3-14-3

England, 79 (7 wkts)

Bob Wyatt	caught (Rolph Grant)	8	0
Maurice Leyland	caught (Manny Martindale)	3	0
Wally Hammond	caught (Rolph Grant)	43	0
Patsy Hendren	caught (Rolph Grant)	3	0
Les Ames	lbw	8	0
Jim Smith	caught (Charles Jones)	0	0
Jack Iddon	not out	14	0
Errol Holmes	caught (Puss Achong)	0	0
Ken Farnes	did not bat	0	0
George Paine	did not bat	0	0
Eric Hollies	did not bat	0	0

Manny Martindale 9.00-0-39-3Leslie Hylton 7.30-3-8-3Puss Achong 6.00-1-14-0Rolph Grant 7.00-0-18-1

West Indies, 40 (6 wkts)

Leslie Hylton	lbw	19	0
Rolph Grant	caught (George Paine)	0	0
Manny Martindale	lbw	0	0
Puss Achong	bowled	0	0
Cyril Christiani	bowled	11	0
Clifford Roach	not out	10	0
George Headley	caught (George Paine)	0	0
Jackie Grant	not out	0	0
George Carew	did not bat	0	0
Charles Jones	did not bat	0	0
Derek Sealy	did not bat	0	0

Ken Farnes 9.00-2-23-1Jim Smith 8.00-4-16-5George Paine 1.00-1-0-0Wally Hammond 1.00-0-1-0

England, 70 (6 wkts)

Ken Farnes	caught (Jackie Grant)	5	0
Jim Smith	caught (Cyril Christiani)	0	0
Errol Holmes	caught (Jackie Grant)	6	0
Patsy Hendren	bowled	20	0
Maurice Leyland	caught (Rolph Grant)	2	0
Wally Hammond	not out	29	0
George Paine	caught (Rolph Grant)	2	0
Bob Wyatt	not out	6	0
Les Ames	did not bat	0	0
Jack Iddon	did not bat	0	0
Eric Hollies	did not bat	0	0

Manny Martindale 8.30-1-22-5Leslie Hylton 8.00-0-48-1

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