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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India v England 1st Test

England tour of India - 1981 (1981/82) · Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai · 27 November 1981 · India won the toss and chose to bat

India won by 138 runs · Man of the Match: Kapil Dev

India won by 138 runs. Geoff Boycott top-scored with 60 for England. Man of the Match: Kapil Dev.

India ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1981 TESTS Wankhede Stadium ARCHIVE

India, 164 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bob Taylor)	55	117
Kris Srikkanth	caught (Keith Fletcher)	0	10
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Chris Tavaré)	17	34
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Geoff Boycott)	8	29
Sandeep Patil	lbw	17	36
Kirti Azad	caught (Mike Gatting)	14	45
Kapil Dev	caught (Bob Taylor)	38	50
Syed Kirmani	lbw	12	20
Madan Lal	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	2
Ravi Shastri	not out	3	12
Dilip Doshi	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	2

Bob Willis 12.00-5-33-1Ian Botham 28.00-6-72-4Graham Dilley 13.00-1-47-4Derek Underwood 4.00-2-12-1

England, 163 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	bowled	2	9
Geoff Boycott	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	60	194
Chris Tavaré	caught (Ravi Shastri)	56	239
David Gower	run out	5	19
Keith Fletcher	lbw	15	29
Ian Botham	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	7	16
John Emburey	lbw	0	14
Graham Dilley	bowled	0	7
Bob Taylor	not out	9	39
Derek Underwood	caught (Syed Kirmani)	8	29
Bob Willis	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	1	7

Kapil Dev 22.00-10-29-1Madan Lal 12.00-2-24-1Dilip Doshi 29.10-12-39-5Ravi Shastri 19.00-6-27-1Sandeep Patil 3.00-0-9-0Kirti Azad 15.00-4-35-1

India, 202 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bob Taylor)	14	60
Kris Srikkanth	run out (John Emburey)	13	31
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Chris Tavaré)	5	12
Gundappa Viswanath	caught (Bob Taylor)	37	38
Sandeep Patil	lbw	13	20
Ravi Shastri	lbw	33	134
Kirti Azad	lbw	17	57
Kapil Dev	lbw	46	50
Syed Kirmani	caught (Bob Taylor)	0	7
Madan Lal	not out	17	39
Dilip Doshi	bowled	7	29

Bob Willis 13.00-4-31-1Ian Botham 22.30-3-61-5Graham Dilley 18.00-5-61-1Derek Underwood 11.00-4-14-0John Emburey 13.00-2-35-2

England, 93 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Syed Kirmani)	1	3
Geoff Boycott	lbw	3	23
Chris Tavaré	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	0	4
David Gower	lbw	20	17
Keith Fletcher	lbw	3	14
Ian Botham	caught (Kirti Azad)	29	28
John Emburey	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	1	5
Graham Dilley	bowled	9	13
Bob Taylor	bowled	1	8
Derek Underwood	not out	13	34
Bob Willis	caught (Syed Kirmani)	13	13

Kapil Dev 13.20-0-70-5Madan Lal 12.00-6-23-5Dilip Doshi 1.00-1-0-0

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