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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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New Zealand v Sri Lanka 1st Test

Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand - 1995 (1994/95) · McLean Park, Napier · 11 March 1995 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl

Sri Lanka won by 241 runs · Man of the Match: Chaminda Vaas

Sri Lanka won by 241 runs. Chamara Dunusinghe top-scored with 91 for Sri Lanka. Man of the Match: Chaminda Vaas.

Sri Lanka ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1995 TESTS McLean Park ARCHIVE

Sri Lanka, 177 (10 wkts)

Asanka Gurusinha	bowled	2	3
Dulip Samaraweera	caught (Bryan Young)	33	80
Sanjeeva Ranatunga	caught (Gavin Larsen)	12	23
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Adam Parore)	0	2
Hashan Tillakaratne	lbw	9	32
Arjuna Ranatunga	caught (Bryan Young)	55	111
Chamara Dunusinghe	caught (Ken Rutherford)	11	34
Chaminda Vaas	not out	33	95
Pramodya Wickramasinghe	caught (Stephen Fleming)	13	21
Muthiah Muralidaran	caught (Dion Nash)	8	6
Ravindra Pushpakumara	caught (Gavin Larsen)	1	10

Danny Morrison 19.00-5-40-3Kerry Walmsley 17.00-3-70-3Dion Nash 16.00-4-28-2Gavin Larsen 17.00-6-39-2

New Zealand, 97 (10 wkts)

Bryan Young	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	2	6
Darrin Murray	lbw	1	5
Mark Greatbatch	lbw	1	6
Stephen Fleming	caught (Sanjeeva Ranatunga)	35	61
Ken Rutherford	caught (Hashan Tillakaratne)	32	117
Shane Thomson	caught (Muthiah Muralidaran)	8	13
Adam Parore	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	7	23
Gavin Larsen	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	0	5
Dion Nash	lbw	0	13
Danny Morrison	not out	7	10
Kerry Walmsley	bowled	4	5

Pramodya Wickramasinghe 19.00-7-33-3Chaminda Vaas 18.50-3-47-5Ravindra Pushpakumara 5.00-1-23-2

Sri Lanka, 338 (10 wkts)

Asanka Gurusinha	lbw	8	39
Dulip Samaraweera	run out	6	14
Sanjeeva Ranatunga	lbw	7	24
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Adam Parore)	62	92
Hashan Tillakaratne	caught (Bryan Young)	74	234
Arjuna Ranatunga	bowled	28	64
Chamara Dunusinghe	bowled	91	240
Chaminda Vaas	bowled	36	124
Pramodya Wickramasinghe	caught	16	29
Muthiah Muralidaran	not out	10	10
Ravindra Pushpakumara	caught (Adam Parore)	0	1

Dion Nash 36.00-12-87-1Kerry Walmsley 38.00-7-112-1Gavin Larsen 39.00-13-73-3Shane Thomson 6.00-3-10-0Danny Morrison 25.30-5-61-4

New Zealand, 162 (10 wkts)

Bryan Young	caught (Dulip Samaraweera)	14	64
Darrin Murray	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	36	114
Mark Greatbatch	caught (Hashan Tillakaratne)	46	82
Stephen Fleming	caught (Hashan Tillakaratne)	0	6
Ken Rutherford	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	20	56
Shane Thomson	caught (Asanka Gurusinha)	4	42
Adam Parore	caught (Hashan Tillakaratne)	17	50
Gavin Larsen	not out	21	71
Dion Nash	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	0	23
Danny Morrison	caught (Asanka Gurusinha)	0	4
Kerry Walmsley	caught (Chamara Dunusinghe)	4	3

Pramodya Wickramasinghe 13.00-2-42-0Chaminda Vaas 26.40-10-43-5Ravindra Pushpakumara 9.00-2-19-0Muthiah Muralidaran 36.00-15-64-5

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