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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 3rd Test

India tour of England - 1982 (1982) · Kennington Oval, London · 8 July 1982 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Ian Botham

Match drawn. Ian Botham top-scored with 208 for England. Man of the Match: Ian Botham.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1982 TESTS Kennington Oval ARCHIVE

England, 576 (10 wkts)

Geoff Cook	caught (Ravi Shastri)	50	98
Chris Tavaré	bowled	39	123
Allan Lamb	run out	107	202
David Gower	caught (Syed Kirmani)	47	90
Ian Botham	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	208	226
Derek Randall	stumping (Syed Kirmani)	95	212
Derek Pringle	stumping (Syed Kirmani)	9	26
Phil Edmonds	caught	14	25
Bob Taylor	lbw	3	31
Paul Allott	caught (Yashpal Sharma)	3	12
Bob Willis	not out	1	8

Kapil Dev 25.00-4-109-1Madan Lal 26.00-8-69-0Suru Nayak 21.00-5-66-0Sandeep Patil 14.00-1-48-1Dilip Doshi 46.00-6-175-4Ravi Shastri 41.30-8-109-3

India, 389 (9 wkts)

Ravi Shastri	caught (Ian Botham)	66	175
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Phil Edmonds)	6	24
Gundappa Viswanath	lbw	56	119
Yashpal Sharma	caught (David Gower)	38	118
Sandeep Patil	caught	62	102
Syed Kirmani	bowled	43	113
Kapil Dev	caught (Paul Allott)	97	93
Madan Lal	caught (Bob Taylor)	5	18
Suru Nayak	bowled	11	18
Dilip Doshi	not out	5	13
Sunil Gavaskar	did not bat	0	0

Bob Willis 23.00-4-78-3Ian Botham 19.00-2-73-2Paul Allott 24.00-4-69-1Derek Pringle 28.00-5-80-0Phil Edmonds 35.20-11-89-3

England, 173 (3 wkts)

Geoff Cook	caught (Yashpal Sharma)	8	19
Chris Tavaré	not out	75	208
Allan Lamb	bowled	45	93
David Gower	caught (Suru Nayak)	45	107
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
Bob Taylor	did not bat	0	0
Paul Allott	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 19.00-3-53-1Madan Lal 11.00-6-17-0Suru Nayak 5.30-0-16-1Dilip Doshi 19.00-5-47-1Ravi Shastri 16.00-3-40-0

India, 106 (3 wkts)

Ravi Shastri	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	3
Suru Nayak	caught (Bob Taylor)	6	12
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Bob Taylor)	16	29
Gundappa Viswanath	not out	75	116
Yashpal Sharma	not out	9	59
Sandeep Patil	did not bat	0	0
Syed Kirmani	did not bat	0	0
Kapil Dev	did not bat	0	0
Madan Lal	did not bat	0	0
Dilip Doshi	did not bat	0	0
Sunil Gavaskar	did not bat	0	0

Bob Willis 4.00-0-16-1Ian Botham 4.00-0-12-0Paul Allott 4.00-1-12-0Derek Pringle 11.00-5-32-2Phil Edmonds 13.00-5-34-0

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