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 England 3rd Test

England tour of Australia - 1998 (1998/99) · Adelaide Oval, Adelaide · 11 December 1998 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 205 runs · Man of the Match: Justin Langer

Australia won by 205 runs. Justin Langer top-scored with 179* for Australia. Man of the Match: Justin Langer.

Australia ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1998 TESTS Adelaide Oval ARCHIVE

Australia, 372 (10 wkts)

Michael Slater	caught (Alec Stewart)	17	37
Mark Taylor	caught (Nasser Hussain)	59	124
Justin Langer	not out	179	350
Mark Waugh	caught (Peter Such)	7	30
Steve Waugh	caught (Graeme Hick)	59	109
Ricky Ponting	caught (Graeme Hick)	5	28
Ian Healy	caught (Mark Ramprakash)	13	27
Damien Fleming	lbw	12	23
Stuart MacGill	bowled	0	4
Colin Miller	lbw	11	9
Glenn McGrath	caught (Alec Stewart)	10	27

Darren Gough 29.50-4-103-3Alan Mullally 26.00-5-59-0Dean Headley 23.00-1-97-4Peter Such 38.00-8-99-3Mark Ramprakash 9.00-1-27-0

England, 217 (10 wkts)

Mark Butcher	lbw	6	35
Mike Atherton	caught (Mark Taylor)	41	92
Nasser Hussain	not out	89	204
Alec Stewart	caught (Michael Slater)	0	3
Mark Ramprakash	caught (Mark Waugh)	61	120
John Crawley	bowled	5	20
Graeme Hick	caught (Mark Taylor)	8	16
Dean Headley	lbw	0	1
Darren Gough	caught (Ian Healy)	7	5
Alan Mullally	bowled	0	5
Peter Such	lbw	0	1

Glenn McGrath 18.00-4-48-2Damien Fleming 10.50-2-34-2Colin Miller 23.00-6-71-2Stuart MacGill 28.00-6-53-4Mark Waugh 3.00-0-17-0

Australia, 259 (5 wkts)

Mark Taylor	lbw	29	71
Michael Slater	lbw	103	191
Justin Langer	caught (Ben Hollioake)	52	183
Mark Waugh	not out	51	83
Steve Waugh	caught (Graeme Hick)	7	22
Ricky Ponting	bowled	10	30
Ian Healy	not out	7	13
Damien Fleming	did not bat	0	0
Stuart MacGill	did not bat	0	0
Colin Miller	did not bat	0	0
Glenn McGrath	did not bat	0	0

Darren Gough 22.00-2-76-2Alan Mullally 16.00-6-18-0Dean Headley 18.00-1-78-1Peter Such 29.00-5-66-2Mark Ramprakash 12.00-1-27-0Graeme Hick 1.00-0-1-0

England, 207 (10 wkts)

Mark Butcher	caught (Ian Healy)	19	39
Mike Atherton	caught (Mark Waugh)	5	43
Nasser Hussain	lbw	41	97
Mark Ramprakash	bowled	57	173
Dean Headley	caught (Mark Waugh)	2	4
Alec Stewart	not out	63	122
John Crawley	caught (Mark Waugh)	13	53
Graeme Hick	caught (Ricky Ponting)	0	1
Darren Gough	caught (Ian Healy)	3	9
Alan Mullally	caught (Ian Healy)	4	3
Peter Such	lbw	0	4

Glenn McGrath 17.00-0-50-4Damien Fleming 21.00-3-56-3Colin Miller 24.00-1-57-3Stuart MacGill 25.00-8-55-0Steve Waugh 2.00-1-3-0

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