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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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Sri Lanka v India 1st Test

India tour of Sri Lanka - 1985 (1985) · Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo · 30 August 1985 · India won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Arjuna Ranatunga top-scored with 111 for Sri Lanka.

India ARCHIVE Sri Lanka ARCHIVE 1985 TESTS Sinhalese Sports Club Ground ARCHIVE

India, 207 (10 wkts)

Lalchand Rajput	caught (Amal Silva)	32	0
Kris Srikkanth	bowled	2	0
Mohammad Azharuddin	caught (Amal Silva)	3	0
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Amal Silva)	6	0
Sunil Gavaskar	run out	51	0
Ravi Shastri	caught (Amal Silva)	9	0
Kapil Dev	caught (Amal Silva)	36	26
Sadanand Viswanath	caught (Asoka de Silva)	20	0
Chetan Sharma	caught (Amal Silva)	38	0
Gopal Sharma	not out	10	0
Maninder Singh	lbw	0	0

Ashantha de Mel 28.00-8-64-5Rumesh Ratnayake 24.20-7-64-2Saliya Ahangama 23.00-3-60-2Asoka de Silva 12.00-5-18-0Arjuna Ranatunga 10.00-8-7-0

Sri Lanka, 341 (10 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	caught (Sadanand Viswanath)	13	0
Amal Silva	caught (Mohammad Azharuddin)	7	0
Ranjan Madugalle	caught (Maninder Singh)	103	0
Roy Dias	caught (Mohammad Azharuddin)	4	0
Duleep Mendis	caught (Sunil Gavaskar)	51	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	bowled	111	0
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Mohammad Azharuddin)	33	0
Ashantha de Mel	caught (Sadanand Viswanath)	16	0
Rumesh Ratnayake	lbw	2	0
Asoka de Silva	not out	1	0
Saliya Ahangama	caught (Sadanand Viswanath)	0	0

Kapil Dev 30.40-8-74-3Chetan Sharma 25.00-3-81-3Ravi Shastri 34.00-9-70-2Maninder Singh 40.00-12-82-2Gopal Sharma 15.00-6-35-0

India, 238 (10 wkts)

Lalchand Rajput	caught (Amal Silva)	61	0
Kris Srikkanth	caught (Amal Silva)	9	0
Mohammad Azharuddin	lbw	16	0
Dilip Vengsarkar	not out	98	0
Sunil Gavaskar	caught (Ashantha de Mel)	0	0
Ravi Shastri	lbw	40	0
Kapil Dev	caught (Don Anurasiri)	6	0
Sadanand Viswanath	caught (Amal Silva)	0	0
Chetan Sharma	run out	4	0
Gopal Sharma	lbw	1	0
Maninder Singh	bowled	3	0

Ashantha de Mel 30.00-3-84-0Rumesh Ratnayake 41.00-10-85-6Saliya Ahangama 27.30-10-49-3Asoka de Silva 15.00-6-20-0Arjuna Ranatunga 6.00-2-6-0

Sri Lanka, 60 (4 wkts)

Aravinda de Silva	caught (Maninder Singh)	21	0
Duleep Mendis	caught (Kapil Dev)	18	0
Roy Dias	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	0	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	run out	15	0
Ranjan Madugalle	not out	5	0
Amal Silva	not out	1	0
Sidath Wettimuny	did not bat	0	0
Ashantha de Mel	did not bat	0	0
Rumesh Ratnayake	did not bat	0	0
Asoka de Silva	did not bat	0	0
Saliya Ahangama	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 4.00-0-36-2Chetan Sharma 4.00-0-24-1

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