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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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Australia v Pakistan 1st Test

Pakistan tour of Australia - 1979 (1978/79) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 10 March 1979 · Australia won the toss and chose to bowl

Pakistan won by 71 runs

Pakistan won by 71 runs. Majid Khan top-scored with 108 for Pakistan.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1979 TESTS Melbourne Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 176 (10 wkts)

Majid Khan	caught (Kevin Wright)	1	3
Mohsin Khan	caught (Andrew Hilditch)	14	30
Zaheer Abbas	bowled	11	27
Javed Miandad	bowled	19	95
Asif Iqbal	caught (Kevin Wright)	9	14
Mushtaq Mohammad	caught (Kevin Wright)	36	121
Wasim Raja	bowled	13	16
Imran Khan	caught (Kevin Wright)	33	90
Sarfraz Nawaz	caught (Kevin Wright)	35	82
Wasim Bari	run out	0	4
Sikander Bakht	not out	5	23

Rodney Hogg 17.00-4-49-4Alan Hurst 20.00-4-55-3Wayne Clark 17.00-4-56-1Peter Sleep 7.70-2-16-1

Australia, 152 (10 wkts)

Graeme Wood	not out	5	23
Andrew Hilditch	caught (Javed Miandad)	3	17
Allan Border	bowled	20	85
Graham Yallop	bowled	25	79
Kim Hughes	run out	19	54
Dav Whatmore	lbw	43	147
Peter Sleep	caught (Wasim Bari)	10	30
Kevin Wright	caught (Imran Khan)	9	33
Wayne Clark	caught (Mushtaq Mohammad)	9	21
Rodney Hogg	run out	9	13
Alan Hurst	caught (Sarfraz Nawaz)	0	1

Imran Khan 18.00-8-26-4Sarfraz Nawaz 21.60-6-39-2Sikander Bakht 10.00-1-29-0Mushtaq Mohammad 7.00-0-35-0Wasim Raja 5.00-0-23-2

Pakistan, 334 (9 wkts)

Majid Khan	bowled	108	157
Mohsin Khan	caught (Rodney Hogg)	14	21
Zaheer Abbas	bowled	59	105
Javed Miandad	caught (Kevin Wright)	16	57
Asif Iqbal	lbw	44	119
Mushtaq Mohammad	caught (Jim Higgs)	28	75
Wasim Raja	caught (Kevin Wright)	28	53
Imran Khan	caught (Wayne Clark)	28	54
Sarfraz Nawaz	lbw	1	3
Wasim Bari	not out	8	20
Sikander Bakht	did not bat	0	0

Rodney Hogg 19.00-2-75-3Alan Hurst 19.50-1-115-3Wayne Clark 21.00-6-47-0Peter Sleep 8.00-0-62-1Allan Border 14.00-5-35-2

Australia, 275 (10 wkts)

Dav Whatmore	bowled	15	48
Andrew Hilditch	bowled	62	132
Allan Border	bowled	105	275
Graham Yallop	run out	8	36
Kim Hughes	caught (Mohsin Khan)	84	209
Graeme Wood	caught (Wasim Bari)	0	1
Peter Sleep	bowled	0	5
Kevin Wright	not out	1	26
Wayne Clark	bowled	0	1
Rodney Hogg	lbw	0	14
Alan Hurst	caught (Wasim Bari)	0	2

Imran Khan 27.00-9-73-0Sarfraz Nawaz 35.40-7-86-9Sikander Bakht 7.00-0-29-0Mushtaq Mohammad 11.00-0-42-0Wasim Raja 3.00-0-11-0Majid Khan 9.00-1-34-0

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