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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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Pakistan v England 3rd Test

England tour of Pakistan - 1984 (1983/84) · Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore · 19 March 1984 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Sarfraz Nawaz

Match drawn. David Gower top-scored with 173* for England. Man of the Match: Sarfraz Nawaz.

England ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1984 TESTS Gaddafi Stadium ARCHIVE

England, 215 (10 wkts)

Chris Smith	caught (Saleem Malik)	18	51
Mike Gatting	lbw	0	4
David Gower	caught (Anil Dalpat)	9	20
Allan Lamb	caught (Ramiz Raja)	29	60
Derek Randall	caught (Saleem Malik)	14	16
Graeme Fowler	caught (Qasim Umar)	58	142
Vic Marks	caught (Mohsin Khan)	74	136
Bob Taylor	lbw	1	5
Neil Foster	lbw	6	24
Nick Cook	caught (Anil Dalpat)	3	21
Norman Cowans	not out	3	10

Mohsin Kamal 15.00-0-66-1Sarfraz Nawaz 22.50-5-49-4Abdul Qadir 30.00-7-84-5Wasim Raja 11.00-4-16-0

Pakistan, 334 (10 wkts)

Mohsin Khan	lbw	1	14
Shoaib Mohammad	lbw	7	10
Qasim Umar	caught (Graeme Fowler)	73	183
Saleem Malik	bowled	38	125
Ramiz Raja	caught (Chris Smith)	26	45
Wasim Raja	caught (David Gower)	12	30
Zaheer Abbas	not out	82	183
Abdul Qadir	caught (Bob Taylor)	3	10
Anil Dalpat	caught (David Gower)	2	6
Sarfraz Nawaz	caught (Mike Gatting)	90	160
Mohsin Kamal	caught (David Gower)	0	2

Norman Cowans 29.00-5-89-2Neil Foster 32.00-8-67-5Nick Cook 46.00-12-117-1Vic Marks 20.00-4-59-1Chris Smith 1.00-0-2-1

England, 329 (9 wkts)

Graeme Fowler	caught (Anil Dalpat)	19	32
Chris Smith	run out	15	24
Mike Gatting	run out	53	160
David Gower	not out	173	284
Allan Lamb	caught (Abdul Qadir)	6	12
Derek Randall	caught (Saleem Malik)	0	4
Vic Marks	caught (Akram Raza)	55	119
Neil Foster	lbw	0	1
Norman Cowans	stumping (Anil Dalpat)	3	7
Bob Taylor	bowled	5	11
Nick Cook	did not bat	0	0

Mohsin Kamal 17.00-3-59-1Sarfraz Nawaz 27.40-1-112-1Abdul Qadir 42.00-5-110-5Wasim Raja 21.00-5-48-0

Pakistan, 212 (6 wkts)

Mohsin Khan	caught (Chris Smith)	104	136
Shoaib Mohammad	caught (Mike Gatting)	80	148
Qasim Umar	run out	0	8
Saleem Malik	caught (Mike Gatting)	7	7
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Mike Gatting)	5	5
Wasim Raja	lbw	0	2
Sarfraz Nawaz	not out	10	28
Ramiz Raja	not out	6	17
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0
Anil Dalpat	did not bat	0	0
Mohsin Kamal	did not bat	0	0

Norman Cowans 14.00-2-42-5Neil Foster 15.00-4-44-0Nick Cook 18.30-2-73-0Vic Marks 10.00-0-53-0Chris Smith 1.00-1-0-0

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