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 3rd Test

England tour of Pakistan - 1987 (1987/88) · National Stadium, Karachi · 16 December 1987 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Abdul Qadir

Match drawn. David Capel top-scored with 98 for England. Man of the Match: Abdul Qadir.

England ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1987 TESTS National Stadium ARCHIVE

England, 279 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Ashraf Ali)	12	24
Chris Broad	lbw	7	51
Bill Athey	bowled	26	59
Mike Gatting	bowled	18	40
Neil Fairbrother	caught (Asif Mujtaba)	3	16
David Capel	bowled	98	264
Phil DeFreitas	bowled	12	24
John Emburey	caught (Abdul Qadir)	70	128
Bruce French	caught (Javed Miandad)	31	110
Nick Cook	lbw	2	4
Graham Dilley	not out	0	4

Wasim Akram 24.10-3-64-2Saleem Jaffar 23.50-6-74-2Abdul Qadir 49.40-15-88-5Iqbal Qasim 18.00-4-51-0Mudassar Nazar 1.00-1-0-0Saleem Malik 5.00-2-9-1

Pakistan, 334 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	lbw	6	22
Ramiz Raja	caught (Bruce French)	50	75
Saleem Malik	caught (Mike Gatting)	55	121
Javed Miandad	lbw	4	2
Ijaz Ahmed	run out	0	3
Aamer Malik	not out	98	329
Ashraf Ali	caught (Bruce French)	12	33
Wasim Akram	caught (Bruce French)	37	69
Abdul Qadir	bowled	61	104
Iqbal Qasim	caught (Bruce French)	11	45
Saleem Jaffar	lbw	0	12

Graham Dilley 21.00-2-102-1Phil DeFreitas 23.50-3-86-5John Emburey 53.00-24-90-1Nick Cook 33.00-12-56-1David Capel 3.00-0-8-1

England, 237 (9 wkts)

Graham Gooch	bowled	93	279
Chris Broad	lbw	13	41
Bill Athey	caught (Ashraf Ali)	12	29
Mike Gatting	lbw	0	5
Neil Fairbrother	caught (Asif Mujtaba)	1	9
David Capel	caught (Iqbal Qasim)	24	86
John Emburey	not out	74	255
Bruce French	lbw	0	4
Phil DeFreitas	lbw	6	10
Nick Cook	bowled	14	101
Graham Dilley	not out	0	13

Saleem Jaffar 42.00-9-79-3Aamer Malik 2.00-0-7-0Abdul Qadir 55.00-16-98-5Iqbal Qasim 27.00-10-44-0Saleem Malik 7.00-2-14-0Mudassar Nazar 4.00-3-2-1

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