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 3rd Test

West Indies tour of New Zealand - 1980 (1979/80) · Eden Park, Auckland · 29 February 1980 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn

Match drawn. Bruce Edgar top-scored with 127 for New Zealand.

West Indies ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1980 TESTS Eden Park ARCHIVE

West Indies, 211 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	caught (Paul McEwan)	7	14
Desmond Haynes	caught (Bruce Edgar)	9	69
Lawrence Rowe	run out	50	124
Alvin Kallicharran	caught (Lance Cairns)	46	83
Clive Lloyd	caught (John Wright)	11	52
Collis King	caught (Gary Troup)	23	39
Deryck Murray	caught (Warren Lees)	16	21
Andy Roberts	not out	35	56
Joel Garner	bowled	3	10
Michael Holding	lbw	5	22
Colin Croft	bowled	6	17

Richard Hadlee 31.00-8-75-4Gary Troup 31.20-11-71-4Lance Cairns 20.00-9-56-1Stephen Boock 2.00-0-9-0

New Zealand, 282 (10 wkts)

John Wright	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	23	97
Bruce Edgar	bowled	127	317
Geoff Howarth	caught (Desmond Haynes)	47	113
Paul McEwan	caught (Deryck Murray)	5	19
John Parker	lbw	0	5
Jeremy Coney	not out	49	134
Warren Lees	bowled	23	56
Richard Hadlee	caught (Deryck Murray)	7	28
Lance Cairns	caught (Deryck Murray)	1	9
Gary Troup	bowled	0	1
Stephen Boock	lbw	0	4

Andy Roberts 34.00-6-90-1Michael Holding 23.00-3-54-0Colin Croft 33.00-5-81-3Joel Garner 36.20-15-56-6Collis King 2.00-1-1-0

West Indies, 259 (9 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	caught (Warren Lees)	74	219
Desmond Haynes	bowled	48	99
Lawrence Rowe	caught (Warren Lees)	5	14
Alvin Kallicharran	lbw	25	60
Collis King	caught (Geoff Howarth)	9	5
Clive Lloyd	caught (Warren Lees)	42	77
Deryck Murray	lbw	7	15
Andy Roberts	caught (Paul McEwan)	26	54
Joel Garner	bowled	7	7
Michael Holding	not out	16	17
Colin Croft	did not bat	0	0

Richard Hadlee 29.00-8-62-1Gary Troup 29.10-5-95-6Lance Cairns 30.00-7-76-2Stephen Boock 6.00-1-26-0

New Zealand, 69 (4 wkts)

John Wright	caught (Desmond Haynes)	23	83
Geoff Howarth	run out	1	6
Paul McEwan	bowled	21	31
John Parker	run out	1	5
Bruce Edgar	not out	22	65
Jeremy Coney	not out	1	26
Warren Lees	did not bat	0	0
Richard Hadlee	did not bat	0	0
Lance Cairns	did not bat	0	0
Gary Troup	did not bat	0	0
Stephen Boock	did not bat	0	0

Andy Roberts 9.00-2-24-0Michael Holding 4.00-1-11-0Colin Croft 10.00-4-17-0Joel Garner 9.00-1-17-1Alvin Kallicharran 4.00-4-0-1

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