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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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India v England 3rd Test

England tour of India - 1981 (1981/82) · Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi · 23 December 1981 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Chris Tavaré

Match drawn. Chris Tavaré top-scored with 149 for England. Man of the Match: Chris Tavaré.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1981 TESTS Feroz Shah Kotla ARCHIVE

England, 451 (9 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Kapil Dev)	71	176
Geoff Boycott	caught (Madan Lal)	105	285
Chris Tavaré	bowled	149	303
David Gower	lbw	0	3
Keith Fletcher	bowled	51	107
Ian Botham	caught (Kirti Azad)	66	48
Mike Gatting	bowled	5	11
Bob Taylor	lbw	0	2
John Lever	bowled	2	7
Derek Underwood	not out	2	2
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 40.40-5-126-1Madan Lal 32.00-4-85-5Dilip Doshi 40.00-15-68-2Ravi Shastri 27.00-3-109-0Kirti Azad 9.00-2-35-0Sandeep Patil 8.00-1-28-1

India, 434 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bob Taylor)	46	97
Kris Srikkanth	bowled	6	4
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Keith Fletcher)	8	43
Gundappa Viswanath	bowled	107	200
Sandeep Patil	bowled	31	61
Kirti Azad	stumping (Bob Taylor)	16	23
Kapil Dev	caught (Graham Gooch)	16	42
Ravi Shastri	lbw	93	243
Syed Kirmani	lbw	67	142
Madan Lal	bowled	44	96
Dilip Doshi	not out	0	4

Bob Willis 26.00-3-99-2John Lever 37.00-7-104-2Derek Underwood 48.00-18-97-2Ian Botham 41.00-6-122-2Graham Gooch 8.10-1-12-2

England, 54 (0 wkts)

Graham Gooch	not out	20	57
Geoff Boycott	not out	34	61
Chris Tavaré	did not bat	0	0
David Gower	did not bat	0	0
Keith Fletcher	did not bat	0	0
Ian Botham	did not bat	0	0
Mike Gatting	did not bat	0	0
Bob Taylor	did not bat	0	0
John Lever	did not bat	0	0
Derek Underwood	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 4.00-1-18-0Madan Lal 3.00-1-4-0Sandeep Patil 3.00-1-10-0Kris Srikkanth 6.00-1-10-0Sunil Gavaskar 3.00-0-12-0

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