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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 2nd Test

England tour of Pakistan - 1987 (1987/88) · Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad · 7 December 1987 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Chris Broad

Match drawn. Chris Broad top-scored with 116 for England. Man of the Match: Chris Broad.

England ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1987 TESTS Iqbal Stadium ARCHIVE

England, 273 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Aamer Malik)	28	56
Chris Broad	bowled	116	339
Bill Athey	caught (Aamer Malik)	27	94
Mike Gatting	bowled	79	81
Tim Robinson	caught (Ashraf Ali)	2	12
Nick Cook	caught (Ashraf Ali)	2	17
David Capel	caught (Aamer Malik)	1	7
John Emburey	stumping (Ashraf Ali)	15	62
Neil Foster	caught (Aamer Malik)	0	8
Bruce French	stumping (Ashraf Ali)	2	7
Eddie Hemmings	not out	1	7

Aamer Malik 5.00-0-19-0Mudassar Nazar 3.00-0-8-0Abdul Qadir 42.00-7-105-4Tauseef Ahmed 28.00-9-62-1Iqbal Qasim 35.20-7-83-5Shoaib Mohammad 1.00-1-0-0

Pakistan, 179 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Bruce French)	1	17
Ramiz Raja	caught (Graham Gooch)	12	30
Saleem Malik	bowled	60	169
Javed Miandad	bowled	19	41
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Tim Robinson)	11	42
Shoaib Mohammad	bowled	0	1
Aamer Malik	caught (Bruce French)	5	65
Ashraf Ali	caught (Bruce French)	4	17
Abdul Qadir	caught (Graham Gooch)	38	64
Iqbal Qasim	lbw	24	47
Tauseef Ahmed	not out	5	21

Neil Foster 18.00-4-42-4David Capel 7.00-1-23-0Eddie Hemmings 18.00-5-35-1John Emburey 21.00-8-49-3Nick Cook 20.30-10-37-2

England, 126 (6 wkts)

Graham Gooch	lbw	65	74
Chris Broad	stumping (Ashraf Ali)	14	36
Bill Athey	bowled	20	39
Mike Gatting	caught (Abdul Qadir)	8	16
John Emburey	not out	10	36
Neil Foster	caught (Javed Miandad)	0	5
David Capel	lbw	2	8
Tim Robinson	not out	7	29
Nick Cook	did not bat	0	0
Bruce French	did not bat	0	0
Eddie Hemmings	did not bat	0	0

Mudassar Nazar 12.00-1-33-1Aamer Malik 3.00-0-20-0Abdul Qadir 15.00-3-45-3Iqbal Qasim 10.00-2-29-2

Pakistan, 45 (1 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	bowled	4	30
Ramiz Raja	not out	13	69
Saleem Malik	not out	28	46
Javed Miandad	did not bat	0	0
Ijaz Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Shoaib Mohammad	did not bat	0	0
Aamer Malik	did not bat	0	0
Ashraf Ali	did not bat	0	0
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0
Iqbal Qasim	did not bat	0	0
Tauseef Ahmed	did not bat	0	0

Neil Foster 3.00-0-4-0Graham Gooch 2.00-1-4-0John Emburey 2.00-0-3-0Nick Cook 9.00-3-15-1Eddie Hemmings 7.00-3-16-0Chris Broad 1.00-0-4-0

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