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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 5th Test

Pakistan tour of Australia - 1983 (1983/84) · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney · 2 January 1984 · Australia won the toss and chose to bowl

Australia won by 10 wickets · Man of the Match: Greg Chappell

Australia won by 10 wickets. Greg Chappell top-scored with 182 for Australia. Man of the Match: Greg Chappell.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1984 TESTS Sydney Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 269 (10 wkts)

Mohsin Khan	caught (Allan Border)	14	21
Mudassar Nazar	caught (Greg Chappell)	84	169
Qasim Umar	caught (Allan Border)	15	47
Abdul Qadir	caught (Kim Hughes)	4	17
Javed Miandad	caught (Dennis Lillee)	16	69
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Graham Yallop)	61	132
Imran Khan	caught (Graham Yallop)	5	13
Saleem Malik	caught (Dennis Lillee)	54	71
Sarfraz Nawaz	lbw	5	34
Wasim Bari	not out	7	14
Azeem Hafeez	caught (Rod Marsh)	4	15

Dennis Lillee 31.20-10-65-4Rodney Hogg 18.00-1-61-0Greg Chappell 8.00-0-25-0Geoff Lawson 25.00-5-59-5Greg Matthews 18.00-4-59-1

Australia, 429 (6 wkts)

Kepler Wessels	caught (Wasim Bari)	3	18
Wayne Phillips	caught (Saleem Malik)	37	101
Graham Yallop	caught (Wasim Bari)	30	45
Greg Chappell	lbw	182	400
Kim Hughes	lbw	76	188
Allan Border	caught (Wasim Bari)	64	120
Greg Matthews	not out	22	49
Rod Marsh	not out	15	13
Geoff Lawson	did not bat	0	0
Rodney Hogg	did not bat	0	0
Dennis Lillee	did not bat	0	0

Sarfraz Nawaz 53.00-13-132-2Azeem Hafeez 36.00-7-121-1Mudassar Nazar 31.00-9-81-3Abdul Qadir 34.00-9-105-0

Pakistan, 205 (10 wkts)

Mohsin Khan	caught (Greg Chappell)	1	8
Mudassar Nazar	bowled	21	29
Qasim Umar	caught (Rod Marsh)	26	36
Javed Miandad	caught (Rod Marsh)	60	129
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Rod Marsh)	33	49
Imran Khan	caught (Rod Marsh)	10	22
Saleem Malik	caught (Greg Chappell)	7	37
Sarfraz Nawaz	caught (Wayne Phillips)	20	56
Abdul Qadir	caught (Rod Marsh)	5	17
Wasim Bari	caught (Wayne Phillips)	20	18
Azeem Hafeez	not out	2	25

Dennis Lillee 29.50-5-88-4Geoff Lawson 20.00-7-48-4Greg Matthews 7.00-4-17-0Rodney Hogg 14.00-2-53-2

Australia, 33 (0 wkts)

Kepler Wessels	not out	14	13
Wayne Phillips	not out	19	23
Graham Yallop	did not bat	0	0
Greg Chappell	did not bat	0	0
Kim Hughes	did not bat	0	0
Allan Border	did not bat	0	0
Greg Matthews	did not bat	0	0
Rod Marsh	did not bat	0	0
Geoff Lawson	did not bat	0	0
Rodney Hogg	did not bat	0	0
Dennis Lillee	did not bat	0	0

Sarfraz Nawaz 3.00-1-7-0Azeem Hafeez 2.40-0-28-0

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