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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India v England 4th Test

England tour of India - 1981 (1981/82) · Eden Gardens, Kolkata · 1 January 1982 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Keith Fletcher

Match drawn. Sunil Gavaskar top-scored with 83* for India. Man of the Match: Keith Fletcher.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1982 TESTS Eden Gardens ARCHIVE

England, 241 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	47	137
Geoff Boycott	caught (Syed Kirmani)	18	33
Chris Tavaré	caught (Syed Kirmani)	7	18
David Gower	caught (Syed Kirmani)	11	40
Keith Fletcher	lbw	69	203
Ian Botham	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	58	94
Derek Underwood	caught (Sandeep Patil)	13	39
Mike Gatting	caught (Syed Kirmani)	0	6
John Emburey	lbw	1	13
Bob Taylor	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	6	42
Bob Willis	not out	11	33

Kapil Dev 31.00-6-91-6Madan Lal 20.00-4-58-1Dilip Doshi 19.20-8-28-2Shivlal Yadav 17.00-7-42-0Ravi Shastri 21.00-10-22-1

India, 190 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	bowled	42	102
Kris Srikkanth	bowled	10	28
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Bob Taylor)	70	247
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (John Emburey)	15	81
Sandeep Patil	caught (Keith Fletcher)	0	4
Kapil Dev	caught (Chris Tavaré)	22	24
Ravi Shastri	run out	8	35
Syed Kirmani	bowled	10	51
Madan Lal	caught (Graham Gooch)	1	10
Shivlal Yadav	caught (Bob Taylor)	5	19
Dilip Doshi	not out	7	13

Bob Willis 14.00-3-28-2Ian Botham 27.00-8-63-2Derek Underwood 29.00-13-45-3John Emburey 24.00-11-44-2Graham Gooch 6.00-1-10-0

England, 261 (5 wkts)

Graham Gooch	bowled	63	107
Geoff Boycott	lbw	6	19
Chris Tavaré	run out	25	92
David Gower	run out	74	158
Ian Botham	caught (Shivlal Yadav)	31	53
Keith Fletcher	not out	60	108
Mike Gatting	not out	2	2
Derek Underwood	did not bat	0	0
John Emburey	did not bat	0	0
Bob Taylor	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 21.00-3-81-0Madan Lal 19.00-3-58-1Dilip Doshi 27.00-5-63-2Shivlal Yadav 3.00-0-11-0Ravi Shastri 17.00-4-35-0Sandeep Patil 3.00-0-13-0

India, 157 (3 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	not out	83	250
Kris Srikkanth	caught (Ian Botham)	25	57
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Chris Tavaré)	32	93
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Graham Gooch)	0	12
Sandeep Patil	not out	17	99
Kapil Dev	did not bat	0	0
Ravi Shastri	did not bat	0	0
Syed Kirmani	did not bat	0	0
Madan Lal	did not bat	0	0
Shivlal Yadav	did not bat	0	0
Dilip Doshi	did not bat	0	0

Bob Willis 6.00-0-21-0Ian Botham 11.00-3-26-0Derek Underwood 31.00-18-38-0John Emburey 30.00-11-62-2Graham Gooch 2.00-0-4-0Keith Fletcher 3.00-1-6-1

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