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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West Indies v Australia 1st Test

Australia tour of West Indies - 1978 (1977/78) · Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain · 3 March 1978 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl

West Indies won by an innings and 106 runs

West Indies won by an innings and 106 runs. Alvin Kallicharran top-scored with 127 for West Indies.

Australia ARCHIVE West Indies ARCHIVE 1978 TESTS Queen's Park Oval ARCHIVE

Australia, 76 (10 wkts)

Graeme Wood	caught (Desmond Haynes)	2	0
Craig Serjeant	caught (Deryck Murray)	3	0
Graham Yallop	caught (Viv Richards)	2	0
Peter Toohey	bowled	20	0
Bob Simpson	lbw	0	0
Gary Cosier	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	46	0
Steve Rixon	run out	1	0
Bruce Yardley	caught (Deryck Murray)	2	0
Jeff Thomson	caught (Richard Austin)	0	0
Wayne Clark	bowled	0	0
Jim Higgs	not out	0	0

Andy Roberts 12.00-4-26-2Colin Croft 9.10-5-15-4Joel Garner 14.00-6-35-3

West Indies, 390 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	bowled	43	0
Desmond Haynes	caught (Steve Rixon)	61	0
Viv Richards	lbw	39	0
Alvin Kallicharran	bowled	127	0
Clive Lloyd	bowled	86	0
Richard Austin	caught (Trevor Laughlin)	2	0
Deryck Murray	caught (Steve Rixon)	21	0
Derick Parry	bowled	0	0
Andy Roberts	stumping (Steve Rixon)	7	0
Joel Garner	caught (Gary Cosier)	0	0
Colin Croft	not out	4	0

Jeff Thomson 21.00-6-84-3Wayne Clark 16.00-3-41-0Jim Higgs 24.50-3-91-4Bob Simpson 16.00-2-65-0Bruce Yardley 19.00-1-64-3Gary Cosier 13.00-2-45-0

Australia, 199 (9 wkts)

Graeme Wood	lbw	32	0
Craig Serjeant	lbw	40	0
Graham Yallop	bowled	81	0
Gary Cosier	lbw	19	0
Bob Simpson	bowled	14	0
Steve Rixon	lbw	0	0
Bruce Yardley	not out	7	0
Jeff Thomson	bowled	4	0
Wayne Clark	bowled	0	0
Jim Higgs	bowled	2	0
Peter Toohey	did not bat	0	0

Andy Roberts 16.20-3-56-5Colin Croft 13.00-1-55-0Joel Garner 17.00-5-39-2Derick Parry 17.00-1-49-2

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