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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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England v India 1st Test

India tour of England - 1982 (1982) · Lord's, London · 10 June 1982 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 7 wickets · Man of the Match: Kapil Dev

England won by 7 wickets. Dilip Vengsarkar top-scored with 157 for India. Man of the Match: Kapil Dev.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1982 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

England, 418 (10 wkts)

Geoff Cook	lbw	4	11
Chris Tavaré	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	4	31
Allan Lamb	lbw	9	21
David Gower	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	37	83
Ian Botham	caught (Ashok Malhotra)	67	105
Derek Randall	caught (Ghulam Parkar)	126	290
Derek Pringle	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	7	26
Phil Edmonds	caught (Syed Kirmani)	64	136
Bob Taylor	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	31	96
Paul Allott	not out	41	51
Bob Willis	bowled	28	54

Kapil Dev 43.00-8-125-5Madan Lal 28.10-6-99-3Ravi Shastri 34.00-10-73-0Dilip Doshi 40.00-7-120-2Yashpal Sharma 3.00-2-1-0

India, 123 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	bowled	48	133
Ghulam Parkar	lbw	6	33
Dilip Vengsarkar	lbw	2	9
Gundappa Viswanath	bowled	1	7
Yashpal Sharma	lbw	4	18
Ashok Malhotra	lbw	5	10
Kapil Dev	caught (Geoff Cook)	41	69
Ravi Shastri	caught (Geoff Cook)	4	3
Syed Kirmani	not out	6	14
Madan Lal	caught (Chris Tavaré)	6	9
Dilip Doshi	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	3

Ian Botham 19.40-3-46-5Bob Willis 16.00-2-41-3Derek Pringle 9.00-4-16-2Phil Edmonds 2.00-1-5-0Paul Allott 4.00-1-15-0

India, 356 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Geoff Cook)	24	73
Ghulam Parkar	bowled	1	12
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Paul Allott)	157	264
Ravi Shastri	bowled	23	69
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Bob Taylor)	3	6
Yashpal Sharma	bowled	37	147
Ashok Malhotra	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	7
Kapil Dev	caught (Geoff Cook)	89	55
Syed Kirmani	caught (David Gower)	3	14
Madan Lal	lbw	15	21
Dilip Doshi	not out	4	14

Ian Botham 31.50-7-103-1Bob Willis 28.00-3-101-6Derek Pringle 19.00-4-58-2Phil Edmonds 15.00-6-39-0Paul Allott 17.00-3-51-1Geoff Cook 1.00-0-4-0

England, 65 (3 wkts)

Geoff Cook	lbw	10	25
Chris Tavaré	bowled	3	5
Bob Taylor	caught (Ashok Malhotra)	1	2
Allan Lamb	not out	37	53
David Gower	not out	14	30
Ian Botham	did not bat	0	0
Derek Randall	did not bat	0	0
Derek Pringle	did not bat	0	0
Phil Edmonds	did not bat	0	0
Paul Allott	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 10.00-1-43-3Madan Lal 2.00-1-2-0Ravi Shastri 2.00-0-9-0Dilip Doshi 5.00-3-11-0

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