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 - 1990 (1989/90) · Lancaster Park, Christchurch · 2 February 1990 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

New Zealand won by 10 wickets · Man of the Match: John Wright

New Zealand won by 10 wickets. John Wright top-scored with 185 for New Zealand. Man of the Match: John Wright.

New Zealand ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Lancaster Park ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 437 (10 wkts)

Trevor Franklin	caught (Manoj Prabhakar)	20	36
John Wright	bowled	185	443
Andrew Jones	caught (Venkatapathy Raju)	52	93
Martin Crowe	lbw	24	54
Mark Greatbatch	bowled	46	108
Ken Rutherford	bowled	69	128
John Bracewell	bowled	0	5
Ian Smith	lbw	9	17
Richard Hadlee	caught (Narendra Hirwani)	28	38
Martin Snedden	lbw	3	12
Danny Morrison	not out	1	9

Kapil Dev 28.30-4-89-3Manoj Prabhakar 38.00-8-114-1Atul Wassan 25.00-3-95-1Venkatapathy Raju 35.00-12-86-3Narendra Hirwani 29.00-9-60-2

India, 144 (10 wkts)

Woorkeri Raman	lbw	0	5
Navjot Sidhu	lbw	51	104
Sanjay Manjrekar	caught (Andrew Jones)	5	15
Mohammad Azharuddin	lbw	48	44
Venkatapathy Raju	caught (Martin Crowe)	31	83
Sachin Tendulkar	caught (Ian Smith)	0	1
Manoj Prabhakar	caught (Ian Smith)	1	3
Kapil Dev	caught (Martin Snedden)	4	8
Kiran More	caught (Ian Smith)	1	12
Atul Wassan	caught (Ian Smith)	2	8
Narendra Hirwani	not out	1	4

Richard Hadlee 14.00-1-45-3Danny Morrison 16.00-2-75-5John Bracewell 3.00-0-14-0Martin Snedden 12.50-4-20-2

India, 275 (9 wkts)

Woorkeri Raman	caught (Andrew Jones)	96	218
Manoj Prabhakar	bowled	40	69
Sanjay Manjrekar	bowled	4	4
Mohammad Azharuddin	bowled	30	52
Kiran More	bowled	11	32
Sachin Tendulkar	caught (Ian Smith)	24	44
Kapil Dev	lbw	25	37
Venkatapathy Raju	caught (Ian Smith)	21	58
Atul Wassan	not out	24	50
Narendra Hirwani	caught (John Bracewell)	0	1
Navjot Sidhu	did not bat	0	0

Richard Hadlee 22.50-3-69-4Danny Morrison 19.00-0-94-1John Bracewell 20.00-4-45-2Martin Snedden 25.00-5-59-2Ken Rutherford 5.00-1-21-0

New Zealand, 2 (0 wkts)

Martin Snedden	not out	1	2
Danny Morrison	not out	1	3
Trevor Franklin	did not bat	0	0
John Wright	did not bat	0	0
Andrew Jones	did not bat	0	0
Martin Crowe	did not bat	0	0
Mark Greatbatch	did not bat	0	0
Ken Rutherford	did not bat	0	0
John Bracewell	did not bat	0	0
Ian Smith	did not bat	0	0
Richard Hadlee	did not bat	0	0

Manoj Prabhakar 0.50-0-2-0

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