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 3rd Test

Pakistan tour of Australia - 1989 (1989/90) · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney · 3 February 1990 · Australia won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Mark Taylor

Match drawn. Mark Taylor top-scored with 101* for Australia. Man of the Match: Mark Taylor.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Sydney Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 187 (10 wkts)

Aamer Malik	caught (Ian Healy)	7	36
Ramiz Raja	caught (Merv Hughes)	0	5
Shoaib Mohammad	lbw	9	20
Javed Miandad	caught (Dean Jones)	49	158
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Mark Taylor)	8	51
Imran Khan	not out	82	203
Wasim Akram	caught (Mark Taylor)	10	29
Saleem Yousuf	caught (Dean Jones)	6	44
Tauseef Ahmed	bowled	0	16
Waqar Younis	caught (Mike Veletta)	16	12
Nadeem Ghauri	bowled	0	2

Terry Alderman 33.50-10-65-5Merv Hughes 31.00-16-70-3Carl Rackemann 22.00-8-33-2Peter Taylor 8.00-1-23-0

Australia, 163 (2 wkts)

Mark Taylor	not out	101	227
Mike Veletta	lbw	9	46
Tom Moody	caught (Aamer Malik)	26	58
Allan Border	not out	27	65
Dean Jones	did not bat	0	0
Steve Waugh	did not bat	0	0
Ian Healy	did not bat	0	0
Peter Taylor	did not bat	0	0
Merv Hughes	did not bat	0	0
Terry Alderman	did not bat	0	0
Carl Rackemann	did not bat	0	0

Wasim Akram 10.00-3-29-0Imran Khan 17.00-2-32-0Tauseef Ahmed 19.00-3-62-1Nadeem Ghauri 8.00-1-20-0Waqar Younis 9.00-4-21-1Ijaz Ahmed 2.00-0-3-0

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