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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Australia v Pakistan 2nd Test

Pakistan tour of Australia - 1989 (1989/90) · Adelaide Oval, Adelaide · 19 January 1990 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Wasim Akram

Match drawn. Imran Khan top-scored with 136 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Wasim Akram.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Adelaide Oval ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 247 (10 wkts)

Shoaib Mohammad	lbw	43	85
Ramiz Raja	caught (Peter Taylor)	9	16
Saleem Yousuf	lbw	38	42
Javed Miandad	caught (Ian Healy)	52	95
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Geoff Marsh)	28	79
Saleem Malik	caught (Ian Healy)	11	22
Imran Khan	caught (Ian Healy)	13	49
Wasim Akram	caught (Allan Border)	52	68
Tauseef Ahmed	caught (Ian Healy)	0	2
Mushtaq Ahmed	caught (Ian Healy)	0	1
Waqar Younis	not out	1	2

Merv Hughes 18.00-5-63-2Greg Campbell 21.30-2-79-3Peter Taylor 12.00-0-57-0Carl Rackemann 21.00-3-40-4Allan Border 4.00-0-10-1

Australia, 316 (10 wkts)

Geoff Marsh	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	13	30
Mark Taylor	lbw	77	193
David Boon	lbw	29	83
Allan Border	bowled	13	37
Dean Jones	caught (Wasim Akram)	116	239
Steve Waugh	lbw	17	47
Ian Healy	caught (Maqsood Rana)	12	27
Peter Taylor	run out	33	144
Merv Hughes	not out	6	9
Greg Campbell	lbw	0	3
Carl Rackemann	bowled	0	1

Wasim Akram 43.00-10-100-5Waqar Younis 26.00-4-66-2Mushtaq Ahmed 23.00-4-69-0Imran Khan 27.00-6-61-2Tauseef Ahmed 14.00-1-33-0

Pakistan, 374 (9 wkts)

Shoaib Mohammad	caught (Ian Healy)	0	4
Ramiz Raja	caught (Steve Waugh)	2	17
Saleem Yousuf	caught (Mark Taylor)	1	9
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Peter Taylor)	4	4
Imran Khan	bowled	136	361
Javed Miandad	caught (Peter Taylor)	21	114
Wasim Akram	bowled	123	195
Saleem Malik	not out	65	105
Tauseef Ahmed	caught (Ian Healy)	18	54
Mushtaq Ahmed	bowled	4	5
Waqar Younis	did not bat	0	0

Merv Hughes 32.00-9-111-5Greg Campbell 29.00-5-83-1Peter Taylor 41.50-13-94-2Carl Rackemann 37.00-11-85-1Allan Border 4.00-0-5-0

Australia, 227 (6 wkts)

Mark Taylor	caught (Saeed Anwar)	59	106
David Boon	caught (Ramiz Raja)	5	10
Allan Border	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	8	24
Dean Jones	not out	121	205
Steve Waugh	bowled	4	38
Ian Healy	caught (Aamer Malik)	27	94
Peter Taylor	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	1	19
Merv Hughes	not out	2	6
Geoff Marsh	did not bat	0	0
Greg Campbell	did not bat	0	0
Carl Rackemann	did not bat	0	0

Wasim Akram 11.00-3-29-1Waqar Younis 14.00-4-42-1Mushtaq Ahmed 25.00-5-72-1Tauseef Ahmed 32.00-6-80-3Shoaib Mohammad 1.00-0-7-0

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