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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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India v England 5th Test

England tour of India - 1976 (1976/77) · Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai · 11 February 1977 · India won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Sunil Gavaskar top-scored with 108 for India.

India ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1977 TESTS Wankhede Stadium ARCHIVE

India, 327 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Derek Underwood)	108	219
Anshuman Gaekwad	caught (Roger Tolchard)	21	35
Surinder Amarnath	bowled	40	77
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (John Lever)	4	5
Brijesh Patel	stumping (Alan Knott)	83	111
Yajurvindra Singh	bowled	6	25
Syed Kirmani	caught (Alan Knott)	8	45
Karsan Ghavri	lbw	25	64
Erapalli Prasanna	bowled	9	15
Bishan Bedi	not out	20	28
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	bowled	3	13

Bob Willis 13.00-1-52-0John Lever 17.40-4-42-3Mike Selvey 15.00-1-80-0Derek Underwood 38.00-13-89-4Tony Greig 22.00-6-64-3

England, 300 (10 wkts)

Dennis Amiss	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	50	210
Mike Brearley	stumping (Syed Kirmani)	91	259
Derek Randall	caught (Anshuman Gaekwad)	22	68
Keith Fletcher	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	14	35
Tony Greig	bowled	76	189
Alan Knott	bowled	24	50
Roger Tolchard	stumping (Syed Kirmani)	4	5
John Lever	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	7	71
Derek Underwood	bowled	7	19
Mike Selvey	not out	5	17
Bob Willis	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	0	4

Karsan Ghavri 12.00-2-31-0Sunil Gavaskar 2.00-0-2-0Bishan Bedi 56.00-20-109-4Bhagwath Chandrasekhar 32.00-7-85-2Erapalli Prasanna 52.00-20-73-4

India, 184 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bob Willis)	42	103
Anshuman Gaekwad	stumping (Alan Knott)	25	83
Surinder Amarnath	run out	63	103
Brijesh Patel	caught (Keith Fletcher)	3	12
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (John Lever)	5	25
Yajurvindra Singh	run out	21	39
Syed Kirmani	caught (Tony Greig)	10	33
Karsan Ghavri	caught (Keith Fletcher)	8	20
Erapalli Prasanna	not out	0	3
Bishan Bedi	lbw	3	4
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	bowled	4	2

Bob Willis 6.00-1-15-0John Lever 17.40-6-46-2Derek Underwood 33.00-10-84-5Tony Greig 14.00-3-39-1

England, 146 (7 wkts)

Dennis Amiss	caught (Gundappa Viswanath)	14	67
Mike Brearley	caught (Yajurvindra Singh)	18	71
Derek Randall	caught (Syed Kirmani)	15	55
Keith Fletcher	not out	58	148
Tony Greig	caught (Bishan Bedi)	10	38
Alan Knott	bowled	1	5
Roger Tolchard	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	26	39
John Lever	caught (Brijesh Patel)	4	4
Derek Underwood	did not bat	0	0
Mike Selvey	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Karsan Ghavri 15.00-6-33-5Sunil Gavaskar 1.00-1-0-0Bishan Bedi 21.00-5-52-1Bhagwath Chandrasekhar 4.00-0-25-0Erapalli Prasanna 30.00-12-36-1

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