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 India 1st Test

India tour of Australia - 1980 (1980/81) · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney · 2 January 1981 · India won the toss and chose to bat

Australia won by an innings and 4 runs · Man of the Match: Greg Chappell

Australia won by an innings and 4 runs. Greg Chappell top-scored with 204 for Australia. Man of the Match: Greg Chappell.

India ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1981 TESTS Sydney Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

India, 198 (9 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Rod Marsh)	0	5
Chetan Chauhan	caught (Allan Border)	20	60
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Rod Marsh)	22	31
Gundappa Viswanath	bowled	26	41
Yashpal Sharma	caught (Rod Marsh)	6	8
Sandeep Patil	not out	65	78
Kapil Dev	caught (Rod Marsh)	22	26
Syed Kirmani	caught (Doug Walters)	27	48
Roger Binny	caught (Rod Marsh)	3	5
Karsan Ghavri	caught (Graeme Wood)	7	18
Dilip Doshi	not out	0	1

Dennis Lillee 20.20-3-86-4Rodney Hogg 14.00-1-51-1Len Pascoe 19.00-6-61-4

Australia, 387 (10 wkts)

Graeme Wood	caught (Syed Kirmani)	9	11
John Dyson	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	0	2
Greg Chappell	caught (Kapil Dev)	204	296
Kim Hughes	caught (Syed Kirmani)	24	68
Allan Border	caught (Syed Kirmani)	31	65
Doug Walters	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	67	107
Rod Marsh	caught (Roger Binny)	12	18
Dennis Lillee	caught (Dilip Doshi)	5	9
Rodney Hogg	not out	26	56
Len Pascoe	caught (Dilip Doshi)	7	10
Jim Higgs	bowled	2	30

Kapil Dev 36.10-7-97-5Karsan Ghavri 30.00-7-107-5Roger Binny 15.00-1-70-0Dilip Doshi 27.00-0-103-0Chetan Chauhan 1.00-0-10-0

India, 195 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Rod Marsh)	10	20
Chetan Chauhan	caught (Doug Walters)	36	78
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Rod Marsh)	34	94
Gundappa Viswanath	stumping (Rod Marsh)	24	43
Yashpal Sharma	caught (Doug Walters)	4	40
Kapil Dev	caught (Shaun Graf)	19	16
Syed Kirmani	not out	43	39
Sandeep Patil	caught (Graeme Wood)	4	2
Roger Binny	lbw	0	1
Karsan Ghavri	caught (Rodney Hogg)	21	37
Dilip Doshi	caught (Dennis Lillee)	0	5

Dennis Lillee 18.00-2-79-3Rodney Hogg 9.00-1-24-1Len Pascoe 11.00-2-35-2Jim Higgs 18.00-8-45-4Doug Walters 6.00-3-12-0

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