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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New Zealand v India 1st Test

India tour of New Zealand - 1981 (1980/81) · Basin Reserve, Wellington · 21 February 1981 · India won the toss and chose to bowl

New Zealand won by 62 runs · Man of the Match: Geoff Howarth

New Zealand won by 62 runs. Geoff Howarth top-scored with 137* for New Zealand. Man of the Match: Geoff Howarth.

New Zealand ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1981 TESTS Basin Reserve ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 336 (10 wkts)

John Wright	caught (Roger Binny)	32	64
Bruce Edgar	caught (Syed Kirmani)	39	97
John Reid	caught (Syed Kirmani)	46	163
Geoff Howarth	not out	137	237
Jeremy Coney	caught (Ravi Shastri)	4	26
Jock Edwards	caught (Syed Kirmani)	23	46
Ian Smith	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	20	36
Richard Hadlee	caught (Syed Kirmani)	20	22
Lance Cairns	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	13	31
Martin Snedden	bowled	2	14
Gary Troup	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	0	1

Kapil Dev 38.00-9-112-3Yograj Singh 15.00-3-63-1Roger Binny 22.00-4-67-1Ravi Shastri 28.00-9-54-3Sandeep Patil 16.00-3-40-2

India, 194 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	bowled	23	74
Chetan Chauhan	caught (Jeremy Coney)	17	37
Dilip Vengsarkar	lbw	39	70
Gundappa Viswanath	bowled	0	3
Sandeep Patil	caught (Ian Smith)	64	113
Kirti Azad	bowled	20	67
Kapil Dev	caught (Ian Smith)	0	1
Syed Kirmani	run out	13	21
Roger Binny	bowled	11	18
Ravi Shastri	not out	3	17
Yograj Singh	caught (Ian Smith)	4	22

Richard Hadlee 16.00-4-62-0Lance Cairns 19.40-8-33-5Martin Snedden 20.00-7-56-1Gary Troup 17.00-5-43-3

New Zealand, 86 (10 wkts)

John Wright	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	8	28
Bruce Edgar	caught (Sandeep Patil)	28	75
John Reid	lbw	7	24
Geoff Howarth	caught (Syed Kirmani)	7	27
Jeremy Coney	caught	8	35
Jock Edwards	caught	6	18
Ian Smith	not out	15	39
Richard Hadlee	caught (Syed Kirmani)	7	37
Lance Cairns	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	0	4
Martin Snedden	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	0	4
Gary Troup	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	0	1

Kapil Dev 16.00-4-34-4Roger Binny 12.00-4-26-2Ravi Shastri 3.00-0-9-3Sandeep Patil 17.00-10-12-1Kirti Azad 1.00-0-5-0

India, 177 (10 wkts)

Kirti Azad	bowled	16	43
Sunil Gavaskar	bowled	12	33
Chetan Chauhan	bowled	1	12
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Ian Smith)	26	59
Gundappa Viswanath	bowled	9	23
Sandeep Patil	caught (Ian Smith)	42	62
Syed Kirmani	bowled	11	36
Kapil Dev	caught (Richard Hadlee)	9	26
Roger Binny	not out	26	86
Ravi Shastri	caught (Ian Smith)	19	54
Yograj Singh	caught (Ian Smith)	6	28

Richard Hadlee 22.30-7-65-4Lance Cairns 19.00-8-30-2Martin Snedden 17.00-4-39-2Gary Troup 13.00-4-34-2Jeremy Coney 4.00-1-9-0

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