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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 3rd Test

Pakistan tour of New Zealand - 1985 (1984/85) · Carisbrook, Dunedin · 9 February 1985 · New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl

New Zealand won by 2 wickets · Man of the Match: Wasim Akram

New Zealand won by 2 wickets. Jeremy Coney top-scored with 111* for New Zealand. Man of the Match: Wasim Akram.

Pakistan ARCHIVE New Zealand ARCHIVE 1985 TESTS Carisbrook ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 259 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Jeff Crowe)	18	29
Mohsin Khan	run out	39	117
Qasim Umar	caught (Jeff Crowe)	96	215
Javed Miandad	caught (Ian Smith)	79	157
Zaheer Abbas	caught (John Reid)	6	8
Rashid Khan	caught (Martin Crowe)	0	9
Anil Dalpat	bowled	16	27
Saleem Malik	lbw	0	3
Tahir Naqqash	caught (John Wright)	0	3
Azeem Hafeez	caught (Ian Smith)	4	8
Wasim Akram	not out	1	8

Richard Hadlee 24.00-5-51-6Brendon Bracewell 18.20-1-81-2Lance Cairns 22.00-0-77-0Ewen Chatfield 24.00-6-46-0Jeremy Coney 6.00-1-16-1

New Zealand, 207 (10 wkts)

Geoff Howarth	bowled	23	64
John Wright	caught (Qasim Umar)	32	42
John Reid	bowled	24	60
Martin Crowe	caught (Javed Miandad)	57	171
Jeff Crowe	lbw	6	12
Jeremy Coney	caught (Anil Dalpat)	24	58
Richard Hadlee	caught (Anil Dalpat)	18	20
Ian Smith	lbw	12	34
Lance Cairns	caught (Anil Dalpat)	6	20
Brendon Bracewell	caught (Rashid Khan)	3	23
Ewen Chatfield	not out	2	8

Rashid Khan 23.00-7-64-2Azeem Hafeez 20.00-6-65-1Wasim Akram 26.00-7-56-5Tahir Naqqash 16.40-4-23-2

Pakistan, 206 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Jeremy Coney)	5	12
Mohsin Khan	caught (Martin Crowe)	27	81
Qasim Umar	caught (Ian Smith)	89	211
Javed Miandad	caught (John Reid)	2	3
Zaheer Abbas	lbw	0	7
Saleem Malik	bowled	9	26
Anil Dalpat	bowled	21	71
Tahir Naqqash	run out	1	5
Rashid Khan	bowled	37	69
Azeem Hafeez	bowled	7	17
Wasim Akram	not out	8	39

Richard Hadlee 26.00-9-59-2Brendon Bracewell 14.40-2-48-2Lance Cairns 22.00-4-41-2Ewen Chatfield 26.00-5-65-3

New Zealand, 255 (8 wkts)

Geoff Howarth	caught (Mohsin Khan)	17	38
John Wright	caught (Mohsin Khan)	1	14
John Reid	caught (Anil Dalpat)	0	7
Martin Crowe	caught (Mudassar Nazar)	84	165
Jeff Crowe	lbw	0	1
Jeremy Coney	not out	111	243
Richard Hadlee	bowled	11	22
Ian Smith	caught (Javed Miandad)	6	9
Lance Cairns	not out	0	5
Brendon Bracewell	caught (Tahir Naqqash)	4	24
Ewen Chatfield	not out	21	84

Rashid Khan 9.00-2-33-0Azeem Hafeez 32.00-9-84-2Wasim Akram 33.00-10-72-5Tahir Naqqash 16.40-1-58-1Mudassar Nazar 9.00-2-20-0

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