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 - 1986 (1986) · Headingley, Leeds · 19 June 1986 · India won the toss and chose to bat

India won by 279 runs · Man of the Match: Dilip Vengsarkar

India won by 279 runs. Dilip Vengsarkar top-scored with 102* for India. Man of the Match: Dilip Vengsarkar.

India ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1986 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

India, 262 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bruce French)	35	71
Kris Srikkanth	caught (John Emburey)	31	62
Ravi Shastri	caught (Derek Pringle)	32	66
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Bruce French)	61	153
Mohammad Azharuddin	lbw	15	43
Chandrakant Pandit	caught (John Emburey)	23	67
Kapil Dev	lbw	0	1
Roger Binny	caught (Wilf Slack)	6	27
Madan Lal	caught (Graham Gooch)	20	62
Kiran More	not out	36	72
Maninder Singh	caught (Graham Gooch)	3	10

Graham Dilley 24.20-7-54-3John Lever 30.00-4-102-2Derek Pringle 27.00-6-47-3John Emburey 17.00-4-45-1Graham Gooch 6.00-0-19-1

England, 95 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Roger Binny)	8	22
Wilf Slack	bowled	0	2
Chris Smith	bowled	6	18
Allan Lamb	caught (Chandrakant Pandit)	10	21
Mike Gatting	caught (Kiran More)	13	22
Bill Athey	caught (Kiran More)	32	72
Derek Pringle	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	8	35
John Emburey	caught (Kapil Dev)	0	1
Bruce French	bowled	8	10
Graham Dilley	bowled	10	60
John Lever	not out	0	12

Kapil Dev 18.00-7-36-1Madan Lal 11.10-3-18-3Roger Binny 13.00-1-40-5Ravi Shastri 3.00-1-5-1

India, 229 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Bruce French)	1	19
Kris Srikkanth	bowled	8	18
Ravi Shastri	lbw	3	13
Dilip Vengsarkar	not out	102	216
Mohammad Azharuddin	lbw	2	9
Chandrakant Pandit	bowled	17	42
Kiran More	caught (Wilf Slack)	16	27
Kapil Dev	caught (Mike Gatting)	31	23
Madan Lal	run out	22	48
Roger Binny	lbw	26	35
Maninder Singh	caught (Mike Gatting)	1	9

Graham Dilley 17.00-2-71-1John Lever 23.00-5-64-4Derek Pringle 22.30-6-73-4John Emburey 7.00-3-9-0Graham Gooch 7.00-2-12-0

England, 117 (10 wkts)

Graham Gooch	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	5	19
Wilf Slack	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	19	51
Chris Smith	caught (Kiran More)	28	69
Allan Lamb	caught (Kiran More)	10	26
Mike Gatting	not out	31	124
Bill Athey	caught (Kiran More)	8	35
John Lever	caught (Kiran More)	0	1
Derek Pringle	lbw	8	20
John Emburey	caught (Mohammad Azharuddin)	1	11
Bruce French	caught (Dilip Vengsarkar)	5	16
Graham Dilley	run out	2	11

Kapil Dev 19.20-7-24-2Madan Lal 9.40-2-30-0Roger Binny 8.00-1-18-2Ravi Shastri 10.00-3-21-1Maninder Singh 16.30-6-26-4

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