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 2nd Test

Australia tour of West Indies - 1978 (1977/78) · Kensington Oval, Bridgetown · 17 March 1978 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl

West Indies won by 9 wickets

West Indies won by 9 wickets. Gordon Greenidge top-scored with 80* for West Indies.

Australia ARCHIVE West Indies ARCHIVE 1978 TESTS Kensington Oval ARCHIVE

Australia, 240 (10 wkts)

Rick Darling	caught (Viv Richards)	4	0
Graeme Wood	lbw	69	0
Graham Yallop	caught (Richard Austin)	47	0
Craig Serjeant	caught (Deryck Murray)	4	0
Bob Simpson	caught (Deryck Murray)	9	0
Gary Cosier	caught (Deryck Murray)	1	0
Steve Rixon	lbw	16	0
Bruce Yardley	bowled	74	0
Jeff Thomson	bowled	12	0
Wayne Clark	bowled	0	0
Jim Higgs	not out	4	0

Andy Roberts 18.00-2-79-1Colin Croft 18.00-3-47-4Joel Garner 16.10-2-65-4Derick Parry 12.00-4-44-1Richard Austin 1.00-0-5-0

West Indies, 266 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	caught (Gary Cosier)	8	0
Desmond Haynes	caught (Steve Rixon)	66	0
Viv Richards	caught (Wayne Clark)	23	0
Alvin Kallicharran	caught (Bruce Yardley)	8	0
Clive Lloyd	caught (Craig Serjeant)	42	0
Richard Austin	caught (Craig Serjeant)	20	0
Deryck Murray	caught (Rick Darling)	60	0
Derick Parry	caught (Craig Serjeant)	27	0
Andy Roberts	lbw	4	0
Joel Garner	not out	5	0
Colin Croft	lbw	3	0

Jeff Thomson 13.00-1-77-6Wayne Clark 24.00-3-77-2Gary Cosier 9.00-4-24-0Jim Higgs 16.00-4-46-1Bob Simpson 7.00-1-30-1Bruce Yardley 2.00-0-12-0

Australia, 159 (10 wkts)

Rick Darling	caught (Deryck Murray)	8	0
Graeme Wood	run out	56	0
Graham Yallop	caught (Clive Lloyd)	14	0
Craig Serjeant	caught (Deryck Murray)	2	0
Gary Cosier	caught (Colin Croft)	8	0
Steve Rixon	caught (Clive Lloyd)	0	0
Bob Simpson	caught (Deryck Murray)	17	0
Bruce Yardley	bowled	43	0
Jeff Thomson	caught (Viv Richards)	11	0
Wayne Clark	lbw	0	0
Jim Higgs	not out	0	0

Andy Roberts 18.00-5-50-4Colin Croft 15.00-4-53-1Joel Garner 15.00-3-56-4

West Indies, 138 (1 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	not out	80	0
Desmond Haynes	caught (Bruce Yardley)	55	0
Derick Parry	not out	3	0
Viv Richards	did not bat	0	0
Alvin Kallicharran	did not bat	0	0
Clive Lloyd	did not bat	0	0
Richard Austin	did not bat	0	0
Deryck Murray	did not bat	0	0
Andy Roberts	did not bat	0	0
Joel Garner	did not bat	0	0
Colin Croft	did not bat	0	0

Jeff Thomson 6.00-1-22-0Wayne Clark 7.00-0-27-0Jim Higgs 13.00-4-34-1Bruce Yardley 10.50-2-55-0

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