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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 Sri Lanka 3rd Test

Sri Lanka tour of India - 1986 (1986/87) · Barabati Stadium, Cuttack · 4 January 1987 · India won the toss and chose to bat

India won by an innings and 67 runs · Man of the Match: Kapil Dev

India won by an innings and 67 runs. Dilip Vengsarkar top-scored with 166 for India. Man of the Match: Kapil Dev.

India ARCHIVE Sri Lanka ARCHIVE 1987 TESTS Barabati Stadium ARCHIVE

India, 366 (10 wkts)

Sunil Gavaskar	lbw	5	0
Kris Srikkanth	bowled	40	0
Mohinder Amarnath	bowled	39	0
Dilip Vengsarkar	lbw	166	279
Raman Lamba	lbw	24	0
Ravi Shastri	caught (Asoka de Silva)	19	0
Kapil Dev	bowled	60	0
Bharat Arun	caught (Arjuna Ranatunga)	2	0
Kiran More	not out	6	0
Shivlal Yadav	stumping (Guy de Alwis)	3	0
Maninder Singh	lbw	2	0

Rumesh Ratnayake 30.00-5-98-1Ravi Ratnayeke 27.30-3-85-5Asoka de Silva 40.00-6-114-0Don Anurasiri 26.00-3-71-4Arjuna Ranatunga 4.00-2-5-0

Sri Lanka, 176 (10 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	caught (Kapil Dev)	6	0
Ravi Ratnayeke	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	20	0
Asanka Gurusinha	caught (Raman Lamba)	40	0
Asoka de Silva	bowled	1	0
Duleep Mendis	bowled	9	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	lbw	30	0
Roy Dias	caught (Kapil Dev)	49	0
Aravinda de Silva	lbw	21	0
Rumesh Ratnayake	lbw	0	0
Guy de Alwis	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	0	0
Don Anurasiri	not out	0	0

Kapil Dev 26.00-3-69-4Bharat Arun 13.00-5-26-1Maninder Singh 17.10-6-41-4Shivlal Yadav 15.00-6-21-1Ravi Shastri 5.00-0-22-0

Sri Lanka, 133 (10 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	bowled	12	0
Ravi Ratnayeke	caught (Kris Srikkanth)	22	0
Asanka Gurusinha	caught (Bharat Arun)	10	0
Rumesh Ratnayake	bowled	24	0
Duleep Mendis	lbw	27	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	lbw	2	0
Roy Dias	bowled	9	0
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Ravi Shastri)	8	0
Asoka de Silva	stumping (Kiran More)	19	0
Guy de Alwis	lbw	0	0
Don Anurasiri	not out	0	0

Kapil Dev 16.00-4-36-1Bharat Arun 2.00-0-14-0Shivlal Yadav 13.00-3-32-3Maninder Singh 17.00-5-42-2Ravi Shastri 11.00-4-11-4

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