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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New Zealand v West Indies 1st Test

West Indies tour of New Zealand - 1980 (1979/80) · Carisbrook, Dunedin · 8 February 1980 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

New Zealand won by 1 wicket

New Zealand won by 1 wicket. Desmond Haynes top-scored with 105 for West Indies.

West Indies ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1980 TESTS Carisbrook ARCHIVE

West Indies, 123 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	caught (Lance Cairns)	2	13
Desmond Haynes	caught (Lance Cairns)	55	208
Lawrence Rowe	lbw	1	4
Alvin Kallicharran	lbw	0	11
Clive Lloyd	lbw	24	95
Collis King	caught (Jeremy Coney)	14	26
Deryck Murray	caught (Bruce Edgar)	6	20
Derick Parry	bowled	17	38
Joel Garner	caught (Geoff Howarth)	0	2
Michael Holding	lbw	4	11
Colin Croft	not out	0	13

Richard Hadlee 20.00-9-34-5Gary Troup 17.00-6-26-2Lance Cairns 19.50-4-32-2Stephen Boock 13.00-3-31-1

New Zealand, 231 (10 wkts)

John Wright	bowled	21	63
Bruce Edgar	lbw	65	226
Geoff Howarth	caught (Deryck Murray)	33	83
John Parker	bowled	0	3
Peter Webb	lbw	5	46
Jeremy Coney	bowled	8	22
Warren Lees	run out	18	23
Richard Hadlee	caught (Clive Lloyd)	51	63
Lance Cairns	bowled	30	18
Gary Troup	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	0	19
Stephen Boock	not out	0	10

Michael Holding 22.00-5-50-2Colin Croft 25.00-3-64-4Joel Garner 25.50-8-51-1Collis King 1.00-0-3-0Derick Parry 22.00-6-63-2

West Indies, 203 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	lbw	3	16
Desmond Haynes	caught (Peter Webb)	105	323
Lawrence Rowe	lbw	12	24
Alvin Kallicharran	caught (Lance Cairns)	0	7
Clive Lloyd	caught (Warren Lees)	5	17
Collis King	caught (Stephen Boock)	41	107
Deryck Murray	lbw	30	97
Derick Parry	caught (Richard Hadlee)	1	11
Joel Garner	bowled	2	2
Michael Holding	caught (Lance Cairns)	3	20
Colin Croft	not out	1	28

Richard Hadlee 36.00-13-68-6Gary Troup 36.40-13-57-3Lance Cairns 25.00-10-63-1Stephen Boock 11.00-4-15-0

New Zealand, 85 (9 wkts)

John Wright	bowled	11	43
Bruce Edgar	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	6	13
Geoff Howarth	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	11	63
John Parker	caught (Deryck Murray)	5	42
Jeremy Coney	lbw	2	4
Peter Webb	lbw	5	21
Warren Lees	lbw	0	1
Richard Hadlee	bowled	17	30
Lance Cairns	caught (Deryck Murray)	19	43
Gary Troup	not out	7	38
Stephen Boock	not out	2	10

Michael Holding 16.00-7-24-3Colin Croft 11.00-2-25-2Joel Garner 23.00-6-36-4

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