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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 Pakistan 1st Test

Pakistan tour of Australia - 1989 (1989/90) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 12 January 1990 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

Australia won by 92 runs · Man of the Match: Wasim Akram

Australia won by 92 runs. Ijaz Ahmed top-scored with 121 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Wasim Akram.

Australia ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Melbourne Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 205 (10 wkts)

Geoff Marsh	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	30	125
Mark Taylor	caught (Aaqib Javed)	52	144
David Boon	lbw	0	1
Allan Border	caught (Javed Miandad)	24	76
Dean Jones	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	0	1
Steve Waugh	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	20	35
Peter Sleep	lbw	23	74
Ian Healy	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	48	81
Merv Hughes	caught (Mansoor Akhtar)	8	12
Terry Alderman	caught (Aamer Malik)	0	2
Carl Rackemann	not out	0	2

Imran Khan 18.00-6-53-2Wasim Akram 30.00-9-62-6Aaqib Javed 22.10-7-47-2Waqar Younis 12.00-3-27-0Tauseef Ahmed 8.00-1-25-0

Pakistan, 92 (10 wkts)

Aamer Malik	lbw	7	30
Shoaib Mohammad	caught (Ian Healy)	6	14
Mansoor Akhtar	caught (Mark Taylor)	5	18
Javed Miandad	caught (Ian Healy)	3	48
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Mark Taylor)	19	33
Imran Khan	caught (Terry Alderman)	3	29
Saleem Yousuf	caught (Mark Taylor)	16	36
Wasim Akram	caught (Ian Healy)	6	9
Tauseef Ahmed	not out	9	94
Waqar Younis	lbw	18	85
Aaqib Javed	caught (Ian Healy)	0	9

Terry Alderman 19.00-6-30-3Carl Rackemann 21.50-8-32-3Merv Hughes 17.00-7-34-3Peter Sleep 8.00-5-6-1

Australia, 279 (8 wkts)

Mark Taylor	caught (Aamer Malik)	101	240
Geoff Marsh	caught (Wasim Akram)	24	82
David Boon	run out	21	45
Allan Border	not out	62	184
Dean Jones	lbw	10	11
Steve Waugh	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	3	3
Peter Sleep	bowled	0	1
Ian Healy	caught (Ijaz Ahmed)	25	37
Merv Hughes	caught (Mansoor Akhtar)	32	50
Terry Alderman	not out	1	19
Carl Rackemann	did not bat	0	0

Imran Khan 8.00-2-21-0Wasim Akram 41.40-12-98-5Aaqib Javed 21.00-1-55-1Waqar Younis 22.00-4-68-0Tauseef Ahmed 16.00-3-58-1

Pakistan, 317 (10 wkts)

Aamer Malik	caught (Mark Taylor)	0	20
Mansoor Akhtar	lbw	14	50
Shoaib Mohammad	caught (David Boon)	10	39
Javed Miandad	lbw	65	100
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Geoff Marsh)	121	331
Imran Khan	lbw	45	111
Saleem Yousuf	lbw	38	66
Wasim Akram	caught (Mark Taylor)	6	14
Tauseef Ahmed	not out	14	65
Waqar Younis	lbw	4	27
Aaqib Javed	lbw	0	16

Terry Alderman 33.50-6-105-5Carl Rackemann 38.00-13-67-0Merv Hughes 42.00-14-79-3Peter Sleep 21.00-7-64-1Steve Waugh 3.00-0-13-1

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