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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 England 1st Test

England tour of Pakistan - 1977 (1977/78) · Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore · 14 December 1977 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Haroon Rasheed top-scored with 122 for Pakistan.

Pakistan ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1977 TESTS Gaddafi Stadium ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 385 (9 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Geoff Miller)	114	449
Sadiq Mohammad	lbw	18	67
Shafiq Ahmed	caught (Brian Rose)	0	10
Haroon Rasheed	caught (John Lever)	122	244
Javed Miandad	caught (Bob Taylor)	71	166
Wasim Raja	stumping (Bob Taylor)	24	53
Abdul Qadir	lbw	11	20
Wasim Bari	caught (Geoff Cope)	17	43
Sarfraz Nawaz	bowled	0	1
Iqbal Qasim	not out	8	21
Liaqat Ali	not out	0	13

Bob Willis 17.00-3-67-0John Lever 16.00-1-47-2Chris Old 21.00-7-63-1Geoff Miller 37.00-10-102-3Geoff Cope 39.00-6-102-3Geoff Boycott 3.00-0-4-0

England, 271 (10 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	bowled	63	267
Mike Brearley	run out	23	108
Brian Rose	lbw	1	11
Derek Randall	caught (Iqbal Qasim)	19	70
Graham Roope	bowled	19	52
Geoff Miller	not out	98	322
Chris Old	caught (Mudassar Nazar)	2	17
Bob Taylor	bowled	32	158
Geoff Cope	lbw	0	2
John Lever	caught (Wasim Bari)	0	11
Bob Willis	caught (Iqbal Qasim)	14	76

Sarfraz Nawaz 34.00-11-68-4Liaqat Ali 27.00-11-43-1Abdul Qadir 32.70-7-82-1Iqbal Qasim 32.00-12-57-3Wasim Raja 10.00-2-21-0

Pakistan, 98 (3 wkts)

Wasim Bari	did not bat	0	0
Sarfraz Nawaz	did not bat	0	0
Iqbal Qasim	did not bat	0	0
Liaqat Ali	did not bat	0	0
Mudassar Nazar	caught (Bob Taylor)	26	39
Sadiq Mohammad	bowled	1	4
Shafiq Ahmed	lbw	7	41
Haroon Rasheed	not out	45	72
Javed Miandad	not out	19	75
Wasim Raja	did not bat	0	0
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0

Bob Willis 7.00-0-34-2John Lever 3.00-0-13-1Geoff Miller 10.00-4-24-0Chris Old 4.00-0-18-0Geoff Cope 3.00-0-7-0Derek Randall 1.00-0-2-0

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