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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 South Africa 1st Test

South Africa tour of Australia - 1993 (1993/94) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 26 December 1993 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Mark Taylor

Match drawn. Mark Taylor top-scored with 170 for Australia. Man of the Match: Mark Taylor.

Australia ARCHIVE South Africa ARCHIVE 1993 TESTS Melbourne Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 328 (7 wkts)

Mark Taylor	bowled	170	349
Michael Slater	caught (Gary Kirsten)	32	89
Shane Warne	lbw	0	2
David Boon	bowled	25	79
Mark Waugh	lbw	84	144
Allan Border	caught (David Richardson)	2	12
Damien Martyn	bowled	8	17
Ian Healy	not out	7	8
Paul Reiffel	did not bat	0	0
Tim May	did not bat	0	0
Craig McDermott	did not bat	0	0

Allan Donald 30.00-4-108-1Fanie de Villiers 32.00-6-83-1Craig Matthews 24.00-5-68-3Hansie Cronje 13.00-4-25-0Pat Symcox 16.50-3-49-2

South Africa, 249 (3 wkts)

Andrew Hudson	not out	64	201
Gary Kirsten	caught (Mark Taylor)	16	59
Hansie Cronje	caught (David Boon)	71	141
Daryll Cullinan	caught (Allan Border)	0	1
Jonty Rhodes	not out	35	124
Kepler Wessels	not out	63	172
David Richardson	did not bat	0	0
Pat Symcox	did not bat	0	0
Craig Matthews	did not bat	0	0
Fanie de Villiers	did not bat	0	0
Allan Donald	did not bat	0	0

Craig McDermott 23.00-5-60-1Paul Reiffel 21.00-4-55-0Mark Waugh 12.00-3-20-1Tim May 28.00-7-58-0Shane Warne 31.00-8-63-1

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