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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England v India 1st Test

India tour of England - 1990 (1990) · Lord's, London · 26 July 1990 · India won the toss and chose to bowl

England won by 247 runs · Man of the Match: Graham Gooch

England won by 247 runs. Graham Gooch top-scored with 333 for England. Man of the Match: Graham Gooch.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

England, 624 (4 wkts)

Graham Gooch	bowled	333	485
Mike Atherton	bowled	8	20
David Gower	caught (Sanjay Manjrekar)	40	109
Allan Lamb	caught (Sanjay Manjrekar)	139	187
Robin Smith	not out	100	155
John Morris	not out	4	21
Jack Russell	did not bat	0	0
Chris Lewis	did not bat	0	0
Eddie Hemmings	did not bat	0	0
Angus Fraser	did not bat	0	0
Devon Malcolm	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 34.00-5-120-1Manoj Prabhakar 43.00-6-187-1Sanjeev Sharma 33.00-5-122-1Ravi Shastri 22.00-0-99-0Narendra Hirwani 30.00-1-102-1

India, 441 (10 wkts)

Ravi Shastri	caught (Graham Gooch)	100	184
Navjot Sidhu	caught (John Morris)	30	56
Sanjay Manjrekar	caught (Jack Russell)	18	59
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Jack Russell)	52	111
Mohammad Azharuddin	bowled	121	111
Sachin Tendulkar	bowled	10	19
Manoj Prabhakar	caught (Chris Lewis)	25	49
Kapil Dev	not out	77	75
Kiran More	caught (John Morris)	8	30
Sanjeev Sharma	caught (Jack Russell)	0	2
Narendra Hirwani	lbw	0	2

Devon Malcolm 25.00-1-106-1Angus Fraser 39.10-9-104-5Chris Lewis 24.00-3-108-1Graham Gooch 6.00-3-26-1Eddie Hemmings 20.00-3-109-2

England, 261 (4 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Mohammad Azharuddin)	123	113
Mike Atherton	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	72	114
David Gower	not out	32	55
Allan Lamb	caught (Sachin Tendulkar)	19	27
Robin Smith	bowled	15	19
John Morris	did not bat	0	0
Jack Russell	did not bat	0	0
Chris Lewis	did not bat	0	0
Eddie Hemmings	did not bat	0	0
Angus Fraser	did not bat	0	0
Devon Malcolm	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 10.00-0-53-0Manoj Prabhakar 11.20-2-45-1Ravi Shastri 7.00-0-38-0Sanjeev Sharma 15.00-0-75-2Narendra Hirwani 11.00-0-50-1

India, 214 (10 wkts)

Ravi Shastri	caught (Jack Russell)	12	18
Navjot Sidhu	caught (John Morris)	1	5
Sanjay Manjrekar	caught (Jack Russell)	33	47
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Jack Russell)	35	72
Mohammad Azharuddin	caught (Mike Atherton)	37	56
Sachin Tendulkar	caught (Graham Gooch)	27	65
Manoj Prabhakar	lbw	8	14
Kapil Dev	caught (Chris Lewis)	7	14
Kiran More	lbw	16	59
Sanjeev Sharma	run out (Graham Gooch)	38	26
Narendra Hirwani	not out	0	2

Angus Fraser 22.00-7-39-3Devon Malcolm 10.00-0-65-2Eddie Hemmings 21.00-2-79-2Mike Atherton 1.00-0-11-0Chris Lewis 8.00-1-26-2

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