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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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New Zealand v Pakistan 2nd Test

Pakistan tour of New Zealand - 1989 (1988/89) · Basin Reserve, Wellington · 10 February 1989 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Imran Khan

Match drawn. Martin Crowe top-scored with 174 for New Zealand. Man of the Match: Imran Khan.

New Zealand ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1989 TESTS Basin Reserve ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 412 (10 wkts)

Bert Vance	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	5	52
John Wright	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	7	44
Andrew Jones	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	86	166
Martin Crowe	caught (Javed Miandad)	174	410
Dipak Patel	lbw	0	3
Jeff Crowe	bowled	39	168
John Bracewell	bowled	15	29
Richard Hadlee	caught (Rizwan-uz-Zaman)	32	69
Ian Smith	not out	40	47
Danny Morrison	lbw	0	3
Ewen Chatfield	run out	14	39

Imran Khan 46.40-18-75-3Saleem Jaffar 34.00-5-94-3Mudassar Nazar 22.00-5-59-2Aaqib Javed 34.00-5-103-0Abdul Qadir 29.00-4-83-1Aamer Malik 4.00-1-9-0

Pakistan, 426 (7 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Danny Morrison)	6	17
Rizwan-uz-Zaman	lbw	18	77
Shoaib Mohammad	bowled	163	516
Javed Miandad	lbw	118	277
Saleem Malik	caught (Ian Smith)	38	109
Imran Khan	bowled	71	139
Aamer Malik	not out	8	24
Saleem Yousuf	caught (Andrew Jones)	4	8
Abdul Qadir	not out	0	5
Saleem Jaffar	did not bat	0	0
Aaqib Javed	did not bat	0	0

Richard Hadlee 54.00-14-101-4Danny Morrison 36.00-10-96-1Ewen Chatfield 53.00-21-82-1Dipak Patel 12.00-3-27-0John Bracewell 40.00-8-123-1

New Zealand, 164 (8 wkts)

Bert Vance	lbw	44	104
John Wright	caught (Javed Miandad)	19	25
Andrew Jones	caught (Ramiz Raja)	39	119
Martin Crowe	lbw	0	8
Dipak Patel	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	2	12
Jeff Crowe	bowled	23	59
John Bracewell	lbw	0	4
Richard Hadlee	caught (Ramiz Raja)	7	9
Ian Smith	not out	29	28
Danny Morrison	not out	1	4
Ewen Chatfield	did not bat	0	0

Imran Khan 17.00-8-34-3Aaqib Javed 13.00-1-57-0Abdul Qadir 14.00-3-39-0Saleem Jaffar 17.00-4-40-5

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