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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 2nd Test

India tour of England - 1982 (1982) · Old Trafford, Manchester · 24 June 1982 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Sandeep Patil

Match drawn. Sandeep Patil top-scored with 129* for India. Man of the Match: Sandeep Patil.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1982 TESTS Old Trafford ARCHIVE

England, 409 (10 wkts)

Geoff Cook	bowled	66	173
Chris Tavaré	bowled	57	176
Allan Lamb	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	9	9
David Gower	caught (Ravi Shastri)	9	21
Ian Botham	bowled	128	169
Derek Randall	caught (Syed Kirmani)	0	3
Geoff Miller	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	98	244
Derek Pringle	stumping (Syed Kirmani)	23	74
Phil Edmonds	caught (Syed Kirmani)	12	53
Bob Taylor	not out	1	5
Bob Willis	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	6	5

Kapil Dev 36.00-5-109-0Madan Lal 35.00-9-104-3Suru Nayak 12.00-1-50-0Dilip Doshi 47.10-17-102-6Ravi Shastri 23.00-8-44-1

India, 358 (8 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Chris Tavaré)	2	20
Ravi Shastri	caught (Geoff Cook)	0	7
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Derek Randall)	12	17
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Bob Taylor)	54	91
Syed Kirmani	bowled	58	134
Yashpal Sharma	bowled	10	35
Sandeep Patil	not out	129	196
Kapil Dev	caught (Bob Taylor)	65	55
Madan Lal	bowled	26	64
Suru Nayak	not out	2	19
Dilip Doshi	did not bat	0	0

Bob Willis 17.00-2-94-2Derek Pringle 15.00-4-33-1Phil Edmonds 37.00-12-94-3Ian Botham 19.00-4-86-1Geoff Miller 16.00-4-51-1

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