GUIDES

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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England v Pakistan 3rd Test

Pakistan tour of England - 1978 (1978) · Headingley, Leeds · 29 June 1978 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Sadiq Mohammad

Match drawn. Sadiq Mohammad top-scored with 97 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Sadiq Mohammad.

Pakistan ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1978 TESTS Headingley ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 192 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Ian Botham)	31	116
Sadiq Mohammad	caught (Mike Brearley)	97	282
Mohsin Khan	lbw	41	116
Talat Ali	caught (Graham Gooch)	0	1
Haroon Rasheed	caught (Mike Brearley)	7	56
Javed Miandad	bowled	1	19
Wasim Raja	lbw	0	2
Sarfraz Nawaz	caught (Bob Taylor)	4	7
Wasim Bari	not out	7	19
Sikander Bakht	bowled	4	16
Iqbal Qasim	lbw	0	2

Bob Willis 26.00-8-48-2Chris Old 41.40-22-41-4Ian Botham 18.00-2-59-4Phil Edmonds 11.00-2-22-0Geoff Miller 9.00-3-22-0

England, 102 (7 wkts)

Mike Brearley	caught (Wasim Bari)	0	2
Graham Gooch	lbw	20	67
Clive Radley	bowled	7	27
David Gower	lbw	39	99
Graham Roope	caught (Sadiq Mohammad)	11	39
Geoff Miller	not out	18	53
Bob Taylor	caught (Wasim Bari)	2	30
Ian Botham	lbw	4	6
Phil Edmonds	not out	1	14
Chris Old	did not bat	0	0
Bob Willis	did not bat	0	0

Sarfraz Nawaz 20.00-6-39-5Sikander Bakht 15.00-4-26-1Mudassar Nazar 5.00-2-12-0Iqbal Qasim 11.00-8-11-0Javed Miandad 3.00-0-14-1

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