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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All-time Test Captain · 1877 – present · every player · real stats

Test Matches at Bay Oval

5 Tests · New Zealand.

#	DATE	MATCH	VENUE	RESULT
2528	2024-02-04	New Zealand v South Africa	Bay Oval	New Zealand won by 281 runs	SCORECARD
2492	2023-02-16	England v New Zealand	Bay Oval	England won by 267 runs	SCORECARD
2444	2022-01-01	New Zealand v Bangladesh	Bay Oval	Bangladesh won by 8 wickets	SCORECARD
2397	2020-12-26	New Zealand v Pakistan	Bay Oval	New Zealand won by 101 runs	SCORECARD
2367	2019-11-21	England v New Zealand	Bay Oval	New Zealand won by an innings and 65 runs	SCORECARD