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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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India v Australia 3rd Test

Australia tour of India - 1956 (1956/57) · Eden Gardens, Kolkata · 2 November 1956 · India won the toss and chose to bowl

Australia won by 94 runs

Australia won by 94 runs. Neil Harvey top-scored with 69 for Australia.

Australia ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1956 TESTS Eden Gardens ARCHIVE

Australia, 171 (10 wkts)

Colin McDonald	bowled	3	0
Jim Burke	caught (Vijay Manjrekar)	10	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Naren Tamhane)	7	0
Ian Craig	caught (Naren Tamhane)	36	0
Peter Burge	caught (Gulabrai Ramchand)	58	0
Ken Mackay	lbw	5	0
Richie Benaud	bowled	24	0
Ray Lindwall	bowled	8	0
Ian Johnson	caught (Ghulam Ahmed)	1	0
Pat Crawford	caught (Nari Contractor)	18	0
Gil Langley	not out	1	0

Gulabrai Ramchand 2.00-1-1-0Polly Umrigar 16.00-3-30-0Ghulam Ahmed 20.30-6-49-7Subhash Gupte 23.00-11-35-1Vinoo Mankad 25.00-4-56-2

India, 126 (10 wkts)

Pankaj Roy	bowled	13	0
Nari Contractor	lbw	22	0
Polly Umrigar	caught (Peter Burge)	5	0
Vijay Manjrekar	caught (Neil Harvey)	33	0
Vinoo Mankad	lbw	4	0
Gulabrai Ramchand	stumping (Gil Langley)	2	0
AG Kripal Singh	caught (Ken Mackay)	14	0
Prakash Bhandari	lbw	17	0
Naren Tamhane	bowled	5	0
Ghulam Ahmed	caught (Ken Mackay)	10	0
Subhash Gupte	not out	1	0

Pat Crawford 3.00-3-0-0Ray Lindwall 25.20-12-32-3Ian Johnson 12.00-2-27-1Richie Benaud 29.00-10-52-6Neil Harvey 1.00-1-0-0Jim Burke 8.00-3-15-0

Australia, 181 (9 wkts)

Colin McDonald	lbw	0	0
Jim Burke	caught (Nari Contractor)	2	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Polly Umrigar)	69	0
Ian Craig	bowled	6	0
Peter Burge	caught (Gulabrai Ramchand)	22	0
Ken Mackay	hitwicket	27	0
Richie Benaud	bowled	21	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Naren Tamhane)	28	0
Ian Johnson	stumping (Naren Tamhane)	5	0
Pat Crawford	not out	1	0
Gil Langley	did not bat	0	0

Gulabrai Ramchand 2.00-1-6-1Polly Umrigar 20.00-9-21-0Ghulam Ahmed 29.00-5-81-3Subhash Gupte 7.00-1-24-1Vinoo Mankad 9.40-1-49-4

India, 123 (10 wkts)

Pankaj Roy	lbw	24	0
Nari Contractor	bowled	20	0
Polly Umrigar	caught (Jim Burke)	28	0
Vijay Manjrekar	caught (Neil Harvey)	22	0
Vinoo Mankad	caught (Neil Harvey)	24	0
Gulabrai Ramchand	bowled	3	0
AG Kripal Singh	bowled	0	0
Prakash Bhandari	caught (Neil Harvey)	2	0
Naren Tamhane	bowled	0	0
Ghulam Ahmed	bowled	0	0
Subhash Gupte	not out	0	0

Ray Lindwall 12.00-7-9-0Pat Crawford 2.00-1-1-0Ian Johnson 14.00-5-23-1Richie Benaud 24.20-6-53-5Jim Burke 17.00-4-37-4

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