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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 Zimbabwe 1st Test

Zimbabwe tour of New Zealand - 1996 (1995/96) · Trust Bank Park, Hamilton · 13 January 1996 · Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Chris Cairns

Match drawn. Adam Parore top-scored with 84* for New Zealand. Man of the Match: Chris Cairns.

New Zealand ARCHIVE Zimbabwe ARCHIVE 1996 TESTS Trust Bank Park ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 193 (8 wkts)

Craig Spearman	caught (Andy Flower)	0	3
Roger Twose	bowled	42	151
Stephen Fleming	run out (Henry Olonga)	49	70
Adam Parore	caught (Andy Flower)	16	63
Nathan Astle	lbw	18	49
Chris Cairns	caught (Andy Flower)	7	23
Lee Germon	caught (Stuart Carlisle)	24	44
Dipak Patel	caught (Henry Olonga)	31	63
Greg Loveridge	not out	4	22
Robert Kennedy	not out	2	4
Geoff Allott	not out	0	13

Heath Streak 25.00-7-52-4Bryan Strang 24.00-11-51-0Eddo Brandes 15.00-3-46-1Henry Olonga 14.00-2-65-1Paul Strang 2.00-1-1-1

Zimbabwe, 185 (10 wkts)

Grant Flower	bowled	5	29
Stuart Carlisle	caught (Lee Germon)	4	16
Alistair Campbell	caught (Nathan Astle)	5	8
Dave Houghton	lbw	31	43
Andy Flower	caught (Craig Spearman)	6	19
Guy Whittall	caught (Lee Germon)	54	163
Heath Streak	caught (Craig Spearman)	24	54
Paul Strang	bowled	49	126
Henry Olonga	caught (Lee Germon)	0	9
Eddo Brandes	not out	3	6
Bryan Strang	caught (Nathan Astle)	4	3

Chris Cairns 24.00-7-56-4Geoff Allott 17.00-5-51-1Robert Kennedy 12.00-4-28-3Roger Twose 5.00-1-14-0Dipak Patel 16.50-4-44-2

New Zealand, 201 (5 wkts)

Craig Spearman	lbw	27	42
Roger Twose	run out (Eddo Brandes)	8	47
Stephen Fleming	caught (Andy Flower)	21	28
Adam Parore	not out	84	177
Nathan Astle	caught (Henry Olonga)	32	78
Chris Cairns	caught (Henry Olonga)	7	15
Lee Germon	not out	22	71
Dipak Patel	did not bat	0	0
Greg Loveridge	did not bat	0	0
Robert Kennedy	did not bat	0	0
Geoff Allott	did not bat	0	0

Heath Streak 22.00-4-56-1Eddo Brandes 18.00-4-52-1Bryan Strang 5.00-1-19-1Paul Strang 24.00-7-57-1Grant Flower 3.00-1-7-0Henry Olonga 3.00-1-20-0

Zimbabwe, 196 (6 wkts)

Grant Flower	caught (Lee Germon)	59	91
Stuart Carlisle	caught (Stephen Fleming)	19	39
Guy Whittall	caught (Robert Kennedy)	20	40
Dave Houghton	lbw	31	52
Andy Flower	not out	58	78
Alistair Campbell	caught (Lee Germon)	3	13
Heath Streak	lbw	6	35
Paul Strang	not out	0	25
Henry Olonga	did not bat	0	0
Eddo Brandes	did not bat	0	0
Bryan Strang	did not bat	0	0

Chris Cairns 15.00-4-43-2Geoff Allott 7.00-0-49-0Robert Kennedy 5.00-0-19-0Dipak Patel 21.00-6-57-2Roger Twose 13.00-0-36-2

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