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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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South Africa v Pakistan 3rd Test

Pakistan tour of South Africa - 1998 (1997/98) · Crusaders Ground, Gqeberha · 6 March 1998 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

South Africa won by 259 runs · Man of the Match: Mark Boucher

South Africa won by 259 runs. Hansie Cronje top-scored with 85 for South Africa. Man of the Match: Mark Boucher.

South Africa ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1998 TESTS Crusaders Ground ARCHIVE

South Africa, 283 (10 wkts)

Adam Bacher	lbw	3	7
Gary Kirsten	bowled	38	88
Jacques Kallis	bowled	10	9
HD Ackerman	bowled	11	13
Andrew Hudson	caught (Moin Khan)	42	121
Hansie Cronje	lbw	85	170
Shaun Pollock	caught (Azhar Mahmood)	38	63
Mark Boucher	caught (Rashid Latif)	52	100
Fanie de Villiers	caught (Azhar Mahmood)	1	16
Allan Donald	lbw	1	12
Paul Adams	not out	2	3

Wasim Akram 26.00-8-70-3Waqar Younis 23.00-6-78-6Azhar Mahmood 21.00-7-47-0Shoaib Akhtar 13.00-5-30-0Mushtaq Ahmed 16.00-1-65-1

Pakistan, 103 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	caught (Mark Boucher)	18	20
Aamer Sohail	caught (Andrew Hudson)	3	36
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Mark Boucher)	0	1
Inzamam-ul-Haq	caught (Mark Boucher)	6	7
Moin Khan	caught (Mark Boucher)	17	45
Azhar Mahmood	caught (Paul Adams)	17	49
Wasim Akram	not out	30	47
Rashid Latif	lbw	0	1
Waqar Younis	caught (Gary Kirsten)	7	26
Shoaib Akhtar	caught (Mark Boucher)	0	1
Mushtaq Ahmed	caught (Mark Boucher)	5	12

Allan Donald 13.00-3-47-4Shaun Pollock 16.00-5-33-0Fanie de Villiers 11.50-5-23-6

South Africa, 188 (7 wkts)

Gary Kirsten	caught (Rashid Latif)	44	93
Adam Bacher	caught (Rashid Latif)	11	14
Jacques Kallis	caught (Rashid Latif)	69	143
HD Ackerman	caught (Inzamam-ul-Haq)	42	110
Andrew Hudson	bowled	4	26
Hansie Cronje	not out	7	8
Shaun Pollock	bowled	7	5
Mark Boucher	bowled	4	10
Fanie de Villiers	did not bat	0	0
Allan Donald	did not bat	0	0
Paul Adams	did not bat	0	0

Wasim Akram 16.00-3-37-0Waqar Younis 17.40-4-55-4Shoaib Akhtar 16.00-1-58-0Azhar Mahmood 15.00-1-49-3Aamer Sohail 1.00-1-0-0

Pakistan, 134 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	caught (Jacques Kallis)	55	109
Ijaz Ahmed	lbw	15	45
Inzamam-ul-Haq	stumping (Mark Boucher)	4	34
Moin Khan	lbw	1	13
Wasim Akram	caught (Mark Boucher)	5	12
Azhar Mahmood	caught (Gary Kirsten)	41	74
Aamer Sohail	lbw	7	29
Rashid Latif	caught (Jacques Kallis)	0	4
Waqar Younis	caught (Mark Boucher)	3	16
Shoaib Akhtar	bowled	2	14
Mushtaq Ahmed	not out	1	11

Allan Donald 15.00-4-27-4Shaun Pollock 17.00-2-46-1Fanie de Villiers 12.50-3-25-2Paul Adams 16.00-8-36-3

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