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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 2nd Test

England tour of Pakistan - 1977 (1977/78) · Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad · 2 January 1978 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Geoff Boycott

Match drawn. Haroon Rasheed top-scored with 108 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Geoff Boycott.

Pakistan ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1978 TESTS Niaz Stadium ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 262 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Phil Edmonds)	27	133
Sadiq Mohammad	caught (Bob Taylor)	9	23
Shafiq Ahmed	caught (Geoff Miller)	13	48
Haroon Rasheed	caught (Phil Edmonds)	108	176
Javed Miandad	not out	88	170
Wasim Raja	caught (Mike Brearley)	0	6
Abdul Qadir	caught (Mike Brearley)	4	24
Wasim Bari	run out	10	42
Iqbal Qasim	caught (Graham Roope)	0	9
Liaqat Ali	caught (Phil Edmonds)	0	7
Sikander Bakht	run out	3	2

Bob Willis 16.00-2-40-2John Lever 16.60-7-41-1Phil Edmonds 24.00-2-75-3Geoff Cope 14.00-6-49-2Geoff Miller 9.00-0-57-0

England, 174 (10 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	run out	79	198
Mike Brearley	caught (Wasim Bari)	17	64
Brian Rose	bowled	27	145
Derek Randall	caught (Abdul Qadir)	7	35
Graham Roope	caught (Abdul Qadir)	1	24
Geoff Miller	caught (Wasim Bari)	5	32
Bob Taylor	bowled	0	1
Phil Edmonds	caught (Wasim Bari)	4	5
Geoff Cope	caught (Sadiq Mohammad)	22	113
John Lever	bowled	4	12
Bob Willis	not out	8	66

Sikander Bakht 16.00-4-35-0Liaqat Ali 6.00-0-18-0Iqbal Qasim 34.00-11-54-2Javed Miandad 5.00-0-21-0Abdul Qadir 24.00-8-44-6Wasim Raja 1.60-0-2-1

Pakistan, 235 (4 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Bob Taylor)	66	232
Sadiq Mohammad	caught (Phil Edmonds)	22	121
Wasim Raja	caught (Phil Edmonds)	24	85
Haroon Rasheed	caught (Mike Brearley)	35	80
Javed Miandad	not out	61	113
Shafiq Ahmed	not out	27	73
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0
Wasim Bari	did not bat	0	0
Iqbal Qasim	did not bat	0	0
Liaqat Ali	did not bat	0	0
Sikander Bakht	did not bat	0	0

Bob Willis 11.00-2-26-2John Lever 20.00-2-62-0Phil Edmonds 30.00-6-95-0Geoff Cope 24.00-9-42-2Geoff Miller 2.00-0-8-0Graham Roope 1.00-0-2-0

England, 174 (1 wkts)

Geoff Boycott	not out	100	303
Mike Brearley	caught (Hasan Jamil)	74	344
John Lever	not out	0	6
Brian Rose	did not bat	0	0
Derek Randall	did not bat	0	0
Graham Roope	did not bat	0	0
Geoff Miller	did not bat	0	0
Bob Taylor	did not bat	0	0
Phil Edmonds	did not bat	0	0
Geoff Cope	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Liaqat Ali 4.00-1-14-0Wasim Raja 12.00-5-14-1Iqbal Qasim 24.40-6-42-0Javed Miandad 4.00-0-10-0Abdul Qadir 27.00-5-72-0Sikander Bakht 10.00-3-22-0

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