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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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Pakistan v New Zealand 1st Test

New Zealand tour of Pakistan - 1984 (1984/85) · Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore · 16 November 1984 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

Pakistan won by 6 wickets · Man of the Match: Iqbal Qasim

Pakistan won by 6 wickets. John Wright top-scored with 65 for New Zealand. Man of the Match: Iqbal Qasim.

New Zealand ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1984 TESTS Gaddafi Stadium ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 156 (10 wkts)

Jeff Crowe	caught (Anil Dalpat)	0	4
Bruce Edgar	bowled	3	37
Martin Crowe	caught (Qasim Umar)	55	116
John Wright	caught (Anil Dalpat)	1	7
John Reid	lbw	2	11
Jeremy Coney	caught (Mohsin Khan)	7	37
Evan Gray	caught	12	62
Ian Smith	caught (Iqbal Qasim)	41	31
Derek Stirling	bowled	16	36
Stephen Boock	caught (Javed Miandad)	13	39
Ewen Chatfield	not out	6	12

Mudassar Nazar 11.00-5-8-3Azeem Hafeez 18.00-9-40-2Abdul Qadir 21.00-6-58-1Iqbal Qasim 22.40-10-41-4Tauseef Ahmed 2.00-0-9-0

Pakistan, 219 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (John Reid)	26	54
Mohsin Khan	caught (John Reid)	58	132
Qasim Umar	caught (Jeff Crowe)	13	56
Javed Miandad	caught (John Reid)	11	34
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Martin Crowe)	43	93
Saleem Malik	lbw	10	19
Abdul Qadir	caught (Jeremy Coney)	14	56
Anil Dalpat	bowled	11	28
Iqbal Qasim	caught (Jeremy Coney)	22	23
Azeem Hafeez	caught (Stephen Boock)	11	24
Tauseef Ahmed	not out	0	11

Derek Stirling 27.00-7-71-2Martin Crowe 7.00-1-21-1Evan Gray 8.00-1-19-2Ewen Chatfield 27.20-7-57-3Stephen Boock 24.00-7-53-2

New Zealand, 226 (10 wkts)

John Wright	run out	65	108
Bruce Edgar	lbw	26	34
Martin Crowe	caught	33	76
John Reid	bowled	6	23
Jeff Crowe	bowled	43	71
Jeremy Coney	caught (Anil Dalpat)	26	52
Stephen Boock	caught (Javed Miandad)	0	6
Evan Gray	caught (Mudassar Nazar)	6	19
Ian Smith	not out	11	26
Derek Stirling	caught (Anil Dalpat)	10	22
Ewen Chatfield	caught (Qasim Umar)	0	4

Mudassar Nazar 10.00-1-30-0Azeem Hafeez 13.00-5-37-2Abdul Qadir 26.00-4-82-3Iqbal Qasim 30.00-10-65-4Tauseef Ahmed 4.00-0-17-0

Pakistan, 177 (4 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	bowled	16	46
Mohsin Khan	caught (Evan Gray)	38	70
Qasim Umar	lbw	20	42
Javed Miandad	not out	48	101
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Ian Smith)	31	57
Saleem Malik	not out	24	31
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0
Anil Dalpat	did not bat	0	0
Iqbal Qasim	did not bat	0	0
Azeem Hafeez	did not bat	0	0
Tauseef Ahmed	did not bat	0	0

Derek Stirling 15.10-2-60-1Ewen Chatfield 13.00-7-12-0Evan Gray 18.00-0-45-2Stephen Boock 17.00-2-56-1Jeremy Coney 2.00-1-4-0

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