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 Pakistan 1st Test

Pakistan tour of England - 1987 (1987) · Old Trafford, Manchester · 4 June 1987 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Tim Robinson

Match drawn. Tim Robinson top-scored with 166 for England. Man of the Match: Tim Robinson.

England ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1987 TESTS Old Trafford ARCHIVE

England, 417 (10 wkts)

Bill Athey	bowled	19	93
Tim Robinson	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	166	365
Mike Gatting	bowled	42	84
Neil Fairbrother	lbw	0	4
Bruce French	caught (Imran Khan)	59	113
David Gower	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	22	42
Ian Botham	caught (Wasim Akram)	48	69
John Emburey	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	19	31
Phil DeFreitas	bowled	11	19
Neil Foster	bowled	8	20
Phil Edmonds	not out	23	30

Wasim Akram 46.00-11-111-4Mohsin Kamal 39.00-4-127-4Tauseef Ahmed 21.40-4-52-2Mudassar Nazar 37.00-8-133-0

Pakistan, 127 (5 wkts)

Ramiz Raja	caught (John Emburey)	15	29
Shoaib Mohammad	caught (Bruce French)	0	7
Mansoor Akhtar	caught (Neil Fairbrother)	75	182
Javed Miandad	caught (Bruce French)	21	65
Saleem Malik	run out	6	21
Imran Khan	not out	10	73
Mudassar Nazar	not out	0	9
Saleem Yousuf	did not bat	0	0
Wasim Akram	did not bat	0	0
Tauseef Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Mohsin Kamal	did not bat	0	0

Neil Foster 15.00-3-34-1Phil DeFreitas 12.00-4-36-1Ian Botham 14.00-7-29-1John Emburey 16.00-3-28-0Phil Edmonds 7.00-5-2-1

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