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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England v India 2nd Test

India tour of England - 1979 (1979) · Lord's, London · 2 August 1979 · India won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Dilip Vengsarkar

Match drawn. Gundappa Viswanath top-scored with 113 for India. Man of the Match: Dilip Vengsarkar.

India ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1979 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

India, 96 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bob Taylor)	42	114
Chetan Chauhan	caught (Derek Randall)	2	14
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Ian Botham)	0	12
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Mike Brearley)	21	34
Anshuman Gaekwad	caught (Bob Taylor)	13	71
Yashpal Sharma	caught (Bob Taylor)	11	53
Kapil Dev	caught (Geoff Miller)	4	5
Karsan Ghavri	not out	3	19
Bharath Reddy	lbw	0	8
Srinivas Venkataraghavan	run out	0	1
Bishan Bedi	bowled	0	4

John Lever 9.50-3-29-1Ian Botham 19.00-9-35-5Mike Hendrick 15.00-7-15-2Phil Edmonds 2.00-1-1-0Graham Gooch 10.00-5-16-1

England, 381 (9 wkts)

Mike Brearley	caught (Bharath Reddy)	12	28
Geoff Boycott	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	32	80
Graham Gooch	bowled	10	52
David Gower	bowled	82	94
Derek Randall	run out	57	135
Ian Botham	bowled	36	63
Geoff Miller	stumping (Bharath Reddy)	62	160
Phil Edmonds	caught (Bharath Reddy)	20	53
Bob Taylor	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	64	112
John Lever	not out	6	8
Mike Hendrick	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 38.00-11-93-3Karsan Ghavri 31.00-2-122-2Bishan Bedi 38.50-13-87-2Srinivas Venkataraghavan 22.00-2-79-1

India, 312 (4 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Mike Brearley)	59	117
Chetan Chauhan	caught (Derek Randall)	31	100
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Geoff Boycott)	103	295
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (David Gower)	113	337
Anshuman Gaekwad	not out	1	31
Yashpal Sharma	not out	5	9
Kapil Dev	did not bat	0	0
Karsan Ghavri	did not bat	0	0
Bharath Reddy	did not bat	0	0
Srinivas Venkataraghavan	did not bat	0	0
Bishan Bedi	did not bat	0	0

Ian Botham 35.00-13-80-1Mike Hendrick 25.00-12-56-0John Lever 24.00-7-69-1Phil Edmonds 45.00-18-62-2Geoff Miller 17.00-6-37-0Graham Gooch 2.00-0-8-0

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