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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 - 1985 (1984/85) · Eden Park, Auckland · 25 January 1985 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl

New Zealand won by an innings and 99 runs

New Zealand won by an innings and 99 runs. John Reid top-scored with 158* for New Zealand.

Pakistan ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1985 TESTS Eden Park ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 161 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	lbw	12	34
Mohsin Khan	caught (Jeremy Coney)	26	80
Qasim Umar	caught (Martin Crowe)	33	73
Javed Miandad	caught (Ian Smith)	26	68
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Jeff Crowe)	6	29
Saleem Malik	not out	41	64
Wasim Raja	caught (Ian Smith)	4	5
Abdul Qadir	run out (John Wright, Ian Smith)	0	1
Anil Dalpat	caught (Jeff Crowe)	7	27
Wasim Akram	caught (Martin Crowe)	0	8
Azeem Hafeez	caught (Stephen Boock)	6	16

Richard Hadlee 19.50-3-60-4Lance Cairns 29.00-10-73-3Ewen Chatfield 14.00-5-24-2Jeremy Coney 4.00-1-7-0

New Zealand, 430 (9 wkts)

Geoff Howarth	caught (Javed Miandad)	13	57
John Wright	caught (Saleem Malik)	66	229
John Reid	not out	158	318
Martin Crowe	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	84	122
Stephen Boock	caught (Wasim Raja)	10	52
Jeff Crowe	run out	30	96
Jeremy Coney	caught (Anil Dalpat)	25	47
Richard Hadlee	caught (Mohsin Khan)	13	18
Ian Smith	caught (Javed Miandad)	7	22
Lance Cairns	bowled	23	33
Ewen Chatfield	not out	1	8

Azeem Hafeez 47.00-10-157-3Wasim Akram 34.40-4-105-2Mudassar Nazar 34.00-5-85-2Abdul Qadir 22.00-5-52-1Wasim Raja 1.00-0-3-0Saleem Malik 8.20-3-34-0

Pakistan, 169 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	bowled	89	187
Mohsin Khan	caught (Jeremy Coney)	1	3
Qasim Umar	caught (Lance Cairns)	22	35
Saleem Malik	caught (Lance Cairns)	0	2
Javed Miandad	caught (Ian Smith)	1	8
Zaheer Abbas	caught (Brendon Bracewell)	12	25
Wasim Raja	caught (John Wright)	11	36
Abdul Qadir	lbw	10	19
Anil Dalpat	lbw	6	20
Azeem Hafeez	lbw	17	20
Wasim Akram	not out	0	10

Richard Hadlee 17.00-1-66-2Lance Cairns 19.40-8-49-4Ewen Chatfield 19.00-5-47-3Stephen Boock 4.00-2-10-1

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