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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West Indies v England 1st Test

England tour of West Indies - 1998 (1997/98) · Sabina Park, Kingston · 29 January 1998 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Alec Stewart top-scored with 9* for England.

England ARCHIVE 1998 TESTS Sabina Park ARCHIVE

England, 12 (3 wkts)

Andy Caddick	did not bat	0	0
Mike Atherton	caught (Sherwin Campbell)	2	7
Alec Stewart	not out	9	26
Mark Butcher	caught (Stuart Williams)	0	1
Nasser Hussain	caught (Carl Hooper)	1	18
Graham Thorpe	not out	0	10
John Crawley	did not bat	0	0
Adam Hollioake	did not bat	0	0
Dean Headley	did not bat	0	0
Angus Fraser	did not bat	0	0
Phil Tufnell	did not bat	0	0

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