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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New Zealand v Australia 1st Test

Australia tour of New Zealand - 1986 (1985/86) · Basin Reserve, Wellington · 21 February 1986 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Jeremy Coney

Match drawn. Greg Matthews top-scored with 130 for Australia. Man of the Match: Jeremy Coney.

Australia ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1986 TESTS Basin Reserve ARCHIVE

Australia, 411 (10 wkts)

David Boon	caught (Ian Smith)	70	154
Geoff Marsh	caught (Jeremy Coney)	43	100
Wayne Phillips	bowled	32	64
Allan Border	lbw	13	35
Greg Ritchie	bowled	92	200
Greg Matthews	caught (Ken Rutherford)	130	235
Steve Waugh	caught (Ian Smith)	11	48
Tim Zoehrer	caught (John Bracewell)	18	26
Craig McDermott	bowled	2	18
Bruce Reid	not out	0	6
Simon Davis	caught (Richard Hadlee)	0	2

Richard Hadlee 37.10-5-116-3Ewen Chatfield 36.00-10-96-1Gary Troup 28.00-6-86-2Stu Gillespie 27.00-2-79-1Jeremy Coney 18.00-7-47-3

New Zealand, 355 (6 wkts)

Trevor Franklin	caught (Allan Border)	0	5
Bruce Edgar	caught (Steve Waugh)	38	136
John Reid	caught (Wayne Phillips)	32	65
Stu Gillespie	caught (Allan Border)	28	81
Martin Crowe	bowled	19	48
Ken Rutherford	caught (Ray Bright)	65	131
Jeremy Coney	not out	101	192
Richard Hadlee	not out	72	120
Ian Smith	did not bat	0	0
Gary Troup	did not bat	0	0
Ewen Chatfield	did not bat	0	0

Craig McDermott 25.30-5-80-1Simon Davis 25.00-4-70-0Bruce Reid 31.00-6-104-3Greg Matthews 37.00-10-107-2Allan Border 4.00-3-1-0Steve Waugh 4.00-1-9-0

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