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 2nd Test

India tour of England - 1990 (1990) · Old Trafford, Manchester · 9 August 1990 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Sachin Tendulkar

Match drawn. Mohammad Azharuddin top-scored with 179 for India. Man of the Match: Sachin Tendulkar.

England ARCHIVE India ARCHIVE 1990 TESTS Old Trafford ARCHIVE

England, 501 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Kiran More)	116	163
Mike Atherton	caught (Kiran More)	131	276
David Gower	caught (Sachin Tendulkar)	38	53
Allan Lamb	caught (Sanjay Manjrekar)	38	97
Jack Russell	caught (Kiran More)	8	21
Robin Smith	not out	121	197
John Morris	bowled	13	28
Chris Lewis	bowled	3	30
Eddie Hemmings	lbw	19	46
Angus Fraser	caught (Sachin Tendulkar)	1	24
Devon Malcolm	bowled	13	37

Kapil Dev 13.00-2-67-1Manoj Prabhakar 25.00-2-112-1Anil Kumble 43.00-7-105-3Narendra Hirwani 62.00-10-174-4Ravi Shastri 17.50-2-50-1

India, 411 (10 wkts)

Ravi Shastri	caught (Graham Gooch)	25	54
Navjot Sidhu	caught (Graham Gooch)	13	16
Sanjay Manjrekar	caught (Robin Smith)	93	196
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Jack Russell)	6	8
Mohammad Azharuddin	caught (Mike Atherton)	179	243
Sachin Tendulkar	caught (Chris Lewis)	68	136
Manoj Prabhakar	caught (Jack Russell)	4	14
Kapil Dev	lbw	0	3
Kiran More	bowled	6	21
Anil Kumble	run out	2	8
Narendra Hirwani	not out	15	35

Devon Malcolm 26.00-3-96-1Angus Fraser 35.00-5-124-5Eddie Hemmings 29.20-8-74-2Chris Lewis 13.00-1-61-1Mike Atherton 16.00-3-68-0

England, 298 (4 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Kiran More)	7	12
Mike Atherton	lbw	74	165
David Gower	bowled	16	37
Allan Lamb	bowled	109	141
Robin Smith	not out	61	94
John Morris	not out	15	30
Jack Russell	not out	16	17
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 22.00-4-69-2Manoj Prabhakar 18.00-1-80-1Anil Kumble 17.00-3-65-0Narendra Hirwani 15.00-0-52-1Ravi Shastri 9.00-0-39-0

India, 317 (6 wkts)

Ravi Shastri	bowled	12	31
Navjot Sidhu	caught (Chris Adams)	0	1
Sanjay Manjrekar	caught (Chris Adams)	50	77
Dilip Vengsarkar	bowled	32	65
Mohammad Azharuddin	caught (Chris Lewis)	11	20
Sachin Tendulkar	not out	119	189
Kapil Dev	bowled	26	35
Manoj Prabhakar	not out	67	128
Kiran More	did not bat	0	0
Anil Kumble	did not bat	0	0
Narendra Hirwani	did not bat	0	0

Devon Malcolm 14.00-5-59-1Angus Fraser 21.00-3-81-1Eddie Hemmings 31.00-10-75-3Chris Lewis 20.00-3-86-1Mike Atherton 4.00-0-22-0

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