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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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Pakistan v Australia 3rd Test

Australia tour of Pakistan - 1959 (1959/60) · National Stadium, Karachi · 4 December 1959 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Hanif Mohammad top-scored with 101* for Pakistan.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1959 TESTS National Stadium ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 281 (10 wkts)

Hanif Mohammad	lbw	51	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	bowled	18	0
Saeed Ahmed	caught (Neil Harvey)	91	0
Shujauddin	caught (Norm O'Neill)	5	0
Duncan Sharpe	caught (Peter Burge)	4	0
Ijaz Butt	caught (Wally Grout)	58	0
Wallis Mathias	caught (Les Favell)	43	0
Intikhab Alam	run out	0	0
Fazal Mahmood	caught (Neil Harvey)	7	0
Mohammad Munaf	not out	4	0
Munir Malik	stumping (Wally Grout)	0	0

Alan Davidson 26.00-5-59-1Ray Lindwall 25.00-6-72-2Richie Benaud 49.50-17-93-5Ken Mackay 27.00-8-53-1Norm O'Neill 4.00-1-4-0

Australia, 254 (10 wkts)

Colin McDonald	bowled	19	0
Gavin Stevens	caught (Wallis Mathias)	13	0
Wally Grout	caught (Intikhab Alam)	20	0
Ken Mackay	caught (Ijaz Butt)	40	0
Neil Harvey	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	54	0
Norm O'Neill	bowled	6	0
Les Favell	caught (Duncan Sharpe)	10	0
Peter Burge	caught (Duncan Sharpe)	12	0
Richie Benaud	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	18	0
Alan Davidson	not out	39	0
Ray Lindwall	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	23	0

Fazal Mahmood 30.20-12-74-5Mohammad Munaf 8.00-0-42-1Intikhab Alam 19.00-4-49-2Munir Malik 22.00-5-76-2Shujauddin 3.00-0-13-0

Pakistan, 190 (8 wkts)

Ijaz Butt	run out	8	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	caught (Neil Harvey)	9	0
Saeed Ahmed	caught (Neil Harvey)	8	0
Hanif Mohammad	not out	101	0
Duncan Sharpe	caught (Ken Mackay)	26	0
Shujauddin	caught (Les Favell)	4	0
Wallis Mathias	caught (Alan Davidson)	13	0
Intikhab Alam	caught (Peter Burge)	6	0
Fazal Mahmood	caught (Richie Benaud)	11	0
Mohammad Munaf	not out	4	0
Munir Malik	did not bat	0	0

Alan Davidson 34.00-8-70-3Ray Lindwall 17.00-10-14-1Richie Benaud 26.00-13-48-1Ken Mackay 32.40-11-58-2

Australia, 78 (2 wkts)

Colin McDonald	lbw	30	0
Gavin Stevens	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	28	0
Neil Harvey	not out	13	0
Norm O'Neill	not out	7	0
Wally Grout	did not bat	0	0
Ken Mackay	did not bat	0	0
Les Favell	did not bat	0	0
Peter Burge	did not bat	0	0
Richie Benaud	did not bat	0	0
Alan Davidson	did not bat	0	0
Ray Lindwall	did not bat	0	0

Fazal Mahmood 10.00-5-16-0Mohammad Munaf 3.00-0-10-0Intikhab Alam 6.00-1-13-1Munir Malik 9.00-1-24-1Shujauddin 2.00-1-9-0Saeed Ahmed 3.00-0-6-0

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