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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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Australia v India 1st Test

India tour of Australia - 1977 (1977/78) · Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane · 2 December 1977 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by 16 runs

Australia won by 16 runs. Sunil Gavaskar top-scored with 113 for India.

Australia ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1977 TESTS Brisbane Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 161 (10 wkts)

Paul Hibbert	caught (Syed Kirmani)	13	77
Gary Cosier	caught (Madan Lal)	19	32
David Ogilvie	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	5	8
Craig Serjeant	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	0	4
Bob Simpson	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	7	6
Peter Toohey	stumping (Syed Kirmani)	82	142
Tony Mann	lbw	19	54
Steve Rixon	caught (Mohinder Amarnath)	9	14
Wayne Clark	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	4	11
Jeff Thomson	bowled	3	18
Alan Hurst	not out	0	9

Madan Lal 10.00-3-27-1Mohinder Amarnath 13.00-4-43-2Bishan Bedi 13.70-3-55-5Erapalli Prasanna 4.00-2-2-0Bhagwath Chandrasekhar 6.00-1-34-2

India, 149 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Gary Cosier)	3	14
Dilip Vengsarkar	hitwicket	48	115
Mohinder Amarnath	lbw	0	17
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Alan Hurst)	45	90
Brijesh Patel	caught (Craig Serjeant)	13	27
Ashok Mankad	caught (Steve Rixon)	0	9
Madan Lal	bowled	4	5
Syed Kirmani	caught (David Ogilvie)	11	53
Erapalli Prasanna	caught (Jeff Thomson)	23	61
Bishan Bedi	not out	2	6
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	lbw	0	8

Jeff Thomson 16.00-1-54-3Wayne Clark 18.00-5-46-4Alan Hurst 7.00-0-31-0Gary Cosier 3.00-1-6-0Tony Mann 6.00-0-12-3

Australia, 308 (10 wkts)

Paul Hibbert	lbw	2	12
Gary Cosier	caught (Erapalli Prasanna)	0	2
David Ogilvie	bowled	46	158
Craig Serjeant	bowled	0	2
Bob Simpson	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	89	269
Peter Toohey	caught (Bishan Bedi)	57	105
Tony Mann	caught (Mohinder Amarnath)	29	56
Steve Rixon	caught (Syed Kirmani)	6	19
Wayne Clark	bowled	12	36
Jeff Thomson	not out	41	53
Alan Hurst	run out	26	23

Madan Lal 19.00-2-72-5Mohinder Amarnath 8.00-1-24-2Bishan Bedi 18.50-2-71-0Erapalli Prasanna 20.00-4-59-0Bhagwath Chandrasekhar 26.00-6-82-2

India, 311 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Steve Rixon)	113	264
Dilip Vengsarkar	bowled	1	2
Mohinder Amarnath	caught (Steve Rixon)	47	79
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (David Ogilvie)	35	85
Brijesh Patel	lbw	3	6
Ashok Mankad	bowled	21	60
Syed Kirmani	caught (Craig Serjeant)	55	133
Madan Lal	caught (Steve Rixon)	2	9
Erapalli Prasanna	caught (Paul Hibbert)	8	11
Bishan Bedi	not out	26	30
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	caught (Steve Rixon)	0	7

Jeff Thomson 19.70-1-76-4Wayne Clark 26.00-1-101-4Alan Hurst 15.00-3-50-2Gary Cosier 5.00-1-10-0Tony Mann 15.00-3-52-0Bob Simpson 4.00-0-22-0

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