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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Australia v West Indies 2nd Test

West Indies tour of Australia - 1979 (1979/80) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 29 December 1979 · Australia won the toss and chose to bat

West Indies won by 10 wickets · Man of the Match: Viv Richards

West Indies won by 10 wickets. Viv Richards top-scored with 96 for West Indies. Man of the Match: Viv Richards.

Australia ARCHIVE West Indies ARCHIVE 1979 TESTS Melbourne Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Australia, 139 (10 wkts)

Julien Wiener	lbw	40	90
Bruce Laird	caught (Clive Lloyd)	16	41
Allan Border	caught (Viv Richards)	17	64
Greg Chappell	caught (Deryck Murray)	19	46
Kim Hughes	caught (Lawrence Rowe)	4	9
Peter Toohey	caught (Andy Roberts)	10	16
Rod Marsh	caught (Alvin Kallicharran)	0	8
Dennis Lillee	caught (Clive Lloyd)	12	21
Geoff Dymock	caught (Alvin Kallicharran)	7	14
Rodney Hogg	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	14	25
Jim Higgs	not out	0	7

Andy Roberts 14.00-1-39-0Michael Holding 14.00-3-40-4Colin Croft 13.30-4-27-3Joel Garner 15.00-7-33-3

West Indies, 386 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	caught (Jim Higgs)	48	94
Desmond Haynes	caught (Kim Hughes)	29	24
Viv Richards	caught (Peter Toohey)	96	110
Alvin Kallicharran	caught (Bruce Laird)	39	63
Lawrence Rowe	bowled	26	68
Clive Lloyd	caught (Rod Marsh)	40	113
Deryck Murray	bowled	24	80
Andy Roberts	lbw	54	88
Joel Garner	caught (Geoff Dymock)	29	38
Michael Holding	not out	1	7
Colin Croft	lbw	0	4

Dennis Lillee 36.00-7-96-3Rodney Hogg 6.00-0-59-0Geoff Dymock 31.00-2-106-4Jim Higgs 34.40-4-122-3Greg Chappell 5.00-2-3-0

Australia, 242 (10 wkts)

Julien Wiener	caught (Deryck Murray)	24	47
Bruce Laird	caught (Joel Garner)	69	176
Allan Border	lbw	15	51
Greg Chappell	caught (Deryck Murray)	22	19
Kim Hughes	lbw	70	102
Peter Toohey	caught (Deryck Murray)	7	26
Rod Marsh	bowled	7	21
Dennis Lillee	caught (Andy Roberts)	0	9
Geoff Dymock	caught (Clive Lloyd)	17	35
Rodney Hogg	caught (Michael Holding)	11	38
Jim Higgs	not out	0	1

Andy Roberts 21.00-1-64-3Michael Holding 23.00-7-61-2Colin Croft 22.00-2-61-3Joel Garner 20.40-2-56-2

West Indies, 18 (0 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	not out	9	21
Desmond Haynes	not out	9	24
Viv Richards	did not bat	0	0
Alvin Kallicharran	did not bat	0	0
Lawrence Rowe	did not bat	0	0
Clive Lloyd	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
Michael Holding	did not bat	0	0
Colin Croft	did not bat	0	0

Dennis Lillee 3.00-0-9-0Geoff Dymock 3.00-0-5-0Kim Hughes 1.00-1-0-0Peter Toohey 0.20-0-4-0

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