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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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England v Pakistan 3rd Test

Pakistan tour of England and Scotland - 1996 (1996) · Kennington Oval, London · 22 August 1996 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Pakistan won by 9 wickets · Man of the Match: Mushtaq Ahmed

Pakistan won by 9 wickets. Saeed Anwar top-scored with 176 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Mushtaq Ahmed.

England ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1996 TESTS Kennington Oval ARCHIVE

England, 303 (10 wkts)

Mike Atherton	bowled	31	77
Alec Stewart	bowled	44	51
Nasser Hussain	caught (Saeed Anwar)	12	25
Graham Thorpe	lbw	54	95
John Crawley	bowled	106	217
Nick Knight	bowled	17	45
Chris Lewis	bowled	5	40
Ian Salisbury	caught (Inzamam-ul-Haq)	5	21
Dominic Cork	caught (Moin Khan)	0	5
Robert Croft	not out	5	18
Alan Mullally	bowled	24	12

Wasim Akram 29.20-9-83-3Waqar Younis 25.00-6-95-4Mohammad Akram 12.00-1-41-1Mushtaq Ahmed 27.00-5-78-2Aamer Sohail 6.00-1-17-0

Pakistan, 496 (8 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	caught (Robert Croft)	176	264
Aamer Sohail	caught (Dominic Cork)	46	78
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Alec Stewart)	61	136
Inzamam-ul-Haq	caught (Nasser Hussain)	35	80
Saleem Malik	not out	100	223
Asif Mujtaba	run out (Chris Lewis)	13	44
Wasim Akram	stumping (Alec Stewart)	40	81
Moin Khan	bowled	23	46
Mushtaq Ahmed	caught (John Crawley)	2	18
Waqar Younis	not out	0	6
Mohammad Akram	did not bat	0	0

Chris Lewis 23.00-3-112-0Alan Mullally 37.10-7-97-3Robert Croft 47.00-10-116-2Dominic Cork 23.00-5-71-1Ian Salisbury 29.00-3-116-1

England, 220 (10 wkts)

Mike Atherton	caught (Inzamam-ul-Haq)	43	144
Alec Stewart	caught (Asif Mujtaba)	54	100
Nasser Hussain	lbw	51	96
Graham Thorpe	caught (Wasim Akram)	9	24
John Crawley	caught (Aamer Sohail)	19	58
Nick Knight	caught (Mushtaq Ahmed)	8	17
Chris Lewis	lbw	4	22
Dominic Cork	bowled	26	33
Robert Croft	caught (Ijaz Ahmed)	6	16
Ian Salisbury	not out	0	0
Alan Mullally	bowled	0	1

Wasim Akram 15.40-1-67-3Waqar Younis 18.00-3-55-1Mushtaq Ahmed 37.00-10-78-6Aamer Sohail 2.00-1-4-0Mohammad Akram 10.00-3-30-0

Pakistan, 43 (1 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	caught (Nick Knight)	1	8
Aamer Sohail	not out	29	17
Ijaz Ahmed	not out	13	21
Inzamam-ul-Haq	did not bat	0	0
Saleem Malik	did not bat	0	0
Asif Mujtaba	did not bat	0	0
Wasim Akram	did not bat	0	0
Moin Khan	did not bat	0	0
Mushtaq Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Waqar Younis	did not bat	0	0
Mohammad Akram	did not bat	0	0

Dominic Cork 3.00-0-15-0Alan Mullally 3.00-0-24-1Robert Croft 0.40-0-9-0

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