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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Pakistan v England 1st Test

England tour of Pakistan - 1987 (1987/88) · Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore · 25 November 1987 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Pakistan won by an innings and 87 runs · Man of the Match: Abdul Qadir

Pakistan won by an innings and 87 runs. Mudassar Nazar top-scored with 120 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Abdul Qadir.

England ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1987 TESTS Gaddafi Stadium ARCHIVE

England, 156 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	bowled	12	45
Chris Broad	caught (Asif Mujtaba)	41	165
Tim Robinson	caught (Ashraf Ali)	6	33
Mike Gatting	lbw	0	2
Bill Athey	lbw	5	15
David Capel	caught (Asif Mujtaba)	0	17
Phil DeFreitas	lbw	5	32
John Emburey	bowled	0	10
Neil Foster	lbw	39	62
Bruce French	not out	38	83
Nick Cook	caught (Javed Miandad)	10	35

Wasim Akram 14.00-4-32-0Mudassar Nazar 5.00-3-9-0Abdul Qadir 37.00-13-56-9Tauseef Ahmed 23.00-9-38-1Iqbal Qasim 4.00-0-22-0

Pakistan, 362 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	lbw	120	257
Ramiz Raja	bowled	35	45
Saleem Malik	bowled	0	1
Javed Miandad	caught (Graham Gooch)	65	166
Ijaz Ahmed	bowled	44	130
Asif Mujtaba	bowled	7	40
Ashraf Ali	bowled	7	43
Wasim Akram	caught (Chris Broad)	40	42
Abdul Qadir	stumping (Bruce French)	38	57
Iqbal Qasim	run out	1	7
Tauseef Ahmed	not out	5	21

Phil DeFreitas 29.00-7-84-1Neil Foster 23.00-6-58-2John Emburey 48.00-16-109-3Nick Cook 31.00-10-87-3David Capel 3.00-0-28-0

England, 122 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Ashraf Ali)	15	42
Chris Broad	caught (Ashraf Ali)	13	36
Tim Robinson	lbw	1	2
Mike Gatting	lbw	23	114
Bill Athey	caught (Ashraf Ali)	2	48
Bruce French	lbw	9	34
David Capel	caught (Javed Miandad)	0	16
Phil DeFreitas	caught (Tauseef Ahmed)	15	52
John Emburey	not out	38	90
Neil Foster	caught (Akram Raza)	1	12
Nick Cook	bowled	5	30

Wasim Akram 2.00-0-6-0Mudassar Nazar 1.00-0-4-0Abdul Qadir 36.00-14-45-4Tauseef Ahmed 20.20-7-28-3Iqbal Qasim 20.00-10-39-3

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