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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 - 1996 (1996/97) · Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore · 21 November 1996 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat

New Zealand won by 44 runs · Man of the Match: Simon Doull

New Zealand won by 44 runs. Mohammad Wasim top-scored with 109* for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Simon Doull.

New Zealand ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1996 TESTS Gaddafi Stadium ARCHIVE

New Zealand, 146 (10 wkts)

Bryan Young	lbw	8	26
Justin Vaughan	lbw	3	19
Adam Parore	caught (Saleem Malik)	37	68
Stephen Fleming	caught (Saleem Malik)	19	60
Nathan Astle	lbw	0	10
Mark Greatbatch	caught (Mohammad Wasim)	18	37
Chris Cairns	caught (Inzamam-ul-Haq)	4	12
Chris Harris	bowled	16	35
Lee Germon	lbw	0	2
Dipak Patel	lbw	26	40
Simon Doull	not out	15	34

Waqar Younis 15.00-3-48-4Shahid Nazir 8.00-3-15-1Mushtaq Ahmed 22.10-4-59-4Saqlain Mushtaq 12.00-3-24-1

Pakistan, 176 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	bowled	8	11
Zahoor Elahi	caught (Stephen Fleming)	22	26
Ijaz Ahmed	lbw	3	5
Inzamam-ul-Haq	caught (Nathan Astle)	0	5
Saleem Malik	caught (Bryan Young)	21	50
Mohammad Wasim	bowled	0	4
Moin Khan	lbw	59	98
Saqlain Mushtaq	lbw	23	90
Waqar Younis	lbw	2	7
Mushtaq Ahmed	caught (Lee Germon)	25	32
Shahid Nazir	not out	13	12

Chris Cairns 19.00-5-79-1Simon Doull 16.00-3-46-5Chris Harris 1.00-0-3-0Justin Vaughan 12.50-2-27-4Dipak Patel 7.00-2-24-0

New Zealand, 288 (10 wkts)

Bryan Young	caught (Mohammad Wasim)	36	82
Justin Vaughan	bowled	11	47
Adam Parore	lbw	15	44
Stephen Fleming	not out	92	198
Nathan Astle	lbw	3	5
Mark Greatbatch	bowled	1	10
Chris Cairns	lbw	93	89
Chris Harris	caught (Saleem Malik)	0	6
Lee Germon	lbw	11	18
Dipak Patel	lbw	0	1
Simon Doull	stumping (Moin Khan)	26	17

Waqar Younis 15.00-6-26-1Shahid Nazir 16.00-1-84-1Mushtaq Ahmed 32.00-8-84-6Saqlain Mushtaq 22.20-4-95-2

Pakistan, 213 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	lbw	0	2
Zahoor Elahi	caught (Bryan Young)	6	45
Ijaz Ahmed	bowled	8	12
Inzamam-ul-Haq	caught (Bryan Young)	14	22
Saqlain Mushtaq	caught (Stephen Fleming)	0	5
Saleem Malik	caught (Lee Germon)	21	35
Mohammad Wasim	not out	109	165
Moin Khan	caught (Lee Germon)	38	75
Mushtaq Ahmed	caught (Stephen Fleming)	15	53
Waqar Younis	bowled	1	9
Shahid Nazir	caught (Chris Harris)	1	7

Simon Doull 16.00-4-39-3Chris Cairns 16.00-5-62-1Justin Vaughan 14.00-5-48-1Dipak Patel 15.10-6-36-4Chris Harris 6.00-2-20-0Nathan Astle 4.00-1-10-1

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