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 West Indies 1st Test

West Indies tour of India - 1987 (1987/88) · Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi · 25 November 1987 · India won the toss and chose to bat

West Indies won by 5 wickets

West Indies won by 5 wickets. Viv Richards top-scored with 109* for West Indies.

India ARCHIVE West Indies ARCHIVE 1987 TESTS Feroz Shah Kotla ARCHIVE

India, 68 (10 wkts)

Kris Srikkanth	caught (Jeff Dujon)	0	3
Arun Lal	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	20	44
Raman Lamba	bowled	1	9
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Roger Harper)	10	39
Ravi Shastri	caught (Richie Richardson)	6	14
Sanjay Manjrekar	caught (Roger Harper)	5	25
Kapil Dev	caught (Jeff Dujon)	7	17
Kiran More	not out	12	16
Arshad Ayub	caught (Roger Harper)	7	18
Chetan Sharma	caught (Richie Richardson)	0	2
Maninder Singh	bowled	0	2

Patrick Patterson 8.50-1-24-5Winston Davis 11.00-2-20-3Winston Benjamin 7.00-0-17-1Courtney Walsh 4.00-0-13-1

West Indies, 117 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	lbw	0	2
Desmond Haynes	caught (Raman Lamba)	45	143
Richie Richardson	lbw	4	2
Viv Richards	caught (Kiran More)	9	9
Gus Logie	lbw	4	2
Jeff Dujon	caught (Raman Lamba)	5	16
Roger Harper	run out	4	3
Winston Davis	caught (Chetan Sharma)	6	24
Winston Benjamin	bowled	19	38
Courtney Walsh	caught (Raman Lamba)	16	39
Patrick Patterson	not out	5	7

Kapil Dev 18.00-8-41-3Chetan Sharma 13.10-2-55-5Maninder Singh 7.00-3-13-0Arshad Ayub 9.00-4-14-1

India, 297 (9 wkts)

Kris Srikkanth	caught (Roger Harper)	5	19
Arun Lal	caught (Winston Benjamin)	40	76
Raman Lamba	bowled	0	1
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	102	257
Ravi Shastri	caught (Roger Harper)	4	11
Sanjay Manjrekar	not out	10	63
Kapil Dev	lbw	44	41
Kiran More	caught (Jeff Dujon)	49	111
Arshad Ayub	lbw	17	62
Chetan Sharma	bowled	24	34
Maninder Singh	not out	2	5

Patrick Patterson 29.00-6-100-3Winston Davis 20.00-3-60-0Winston Benjamin 23.00-3-76-1Courtney Walsh 29.30-9-54-5Roger Harper 12.00-3-13-0

West Indies, 259 (5 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	lbw	33	73
Desmond Haynes	hitwicket	27	101
Richie Richardson	caught (Raman Lamba)	31	57
Winston Davis	caught	1	35
Viv Richards	not out	109	111
Gus Logie	lbw	46	75
Jeff Dujon	not out	12	54
Roger Harper	did not bat	0	0
Winston Benjamin	did not bat	0	0
Courtney Walsh	did not bat	0	0
Patrick Patterson	did not bat	0	0

Kapil Dev 20.00-8-44-1Chetan Sharma 11.00-1-44-0Maninder Singh 20.00-4-75-0Arshad Ayub 25.00-4-72-4Ravi Shastri 9.00-2-30-0Arun Lal 0.30-0-1-0

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