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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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Sri Lanka v Pakistan 2nd Test

Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka - 1986 (1985/86) · Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo · 14 March 1986 · Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets · Man of the Match: Arjuna Ranatunga

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets. Arjuna Ranatunga top-scored with 77 for Sri Lanka. Man of the Match: Arjuna Ranatunga.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Sri Lanka ARCHIVE 1986 TESTS Colombo Cricket Club Ground ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 125 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Guy de Alwis)	3	0
Mohsin Khan	lbw	35	0
Qasim Umar	lbw	3	0
Javed Miandad	caught (Guy de Alwis)	0	0
Ramiz Raja	lbw	32	0
Saleem Malik	caught (Roshan Mahanama)	42	0
Imran Khan	caught (Duleep Mendis)	8	0
Tauseef Ahmed	bowled	0	0
Wasim Akram	caught (Ashantha de Mel)	0	0
Zulqarnain	caught (Aravinda de Silva)	1	0
Mohsin Kamal	not out	1	0

Ashantha de Mel 16.00-6-39-3Kosala Kuruppuarachchi 14.50-2-44-5Ravi Ratnayeke 17.40-8-29-2Arjuna Ranatunga 1.00-0-12-0Don Anurasiri 2.00-1-4-0

Sri Lanka, 252 (10 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	caught (Zulqarnain)	37	0
Roshan Mahanama	run out	10	0
Asanka Gurusinha	caught (Imran Khan)	23	0
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	37	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	caught (Qasim Umar)	77	175
Duleep Mendis	caught (Mohsin Khan)	5	0
Ravi Ratnayeke	caught (Imran Khan)	38	0
Guy de Alwis	caught (Javed Miandad)	10	0
Ashantha de Mel	caught (Zulqarnain)	11	0
Don Anurasiri	caught (Ramiz Raja)	4	0
Kosala Kuruppuarachchi	not out	0	0

Imran Khan 27.00-5-78-2Wasim Akram 27.30-9-55-4Mohsin Kamal 15.00-0-52-2Mudassar Nazar 14.00-2-36-1Tauseef Ahmed 11.00-2-40-0Saleem Malik 1.00-0-2-0

Pakistan, 161 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	lbw	1	0
Mohsin Khan	caught (Aravinda de Silva)	2	0
Qasim Umar	caught (Guy de Alwis)	52	50
Ramiz Raja	caught (Guy de Alwis)	21	0
Javed Miandad	lbw	36	0
Saleem Malik	caught (Sidath Wettimuny)	30	0
Imran Khan	caught (Aravinda de Silva)	0	0
Wasim Akram	caught (Arjuna Ranatunga)	0	0
Tauseef Ahmed	lbw	1	0
Zulqarnain	lbw	5	0
Mohsin Kamal	not out	13	0

Ashantha de Mel 16.00-1-79-3Kosala Kuruppuarachchi 10.30-1-41-2Ravi Ratnayeke 17.00-3-37-5Don Anurasiri 2.00-0-8-0

Sri Lanka, 25 (2 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	caught (Saleem Malik)	7	0
Roshan Mahanama	caught (Zulqarnain)	8	0
Asanka Gurusinha	not out	9	0
Aravinda de Silva	not out	1	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	did not bat	0	0
Duleep Mendis	did not bat	0	0
Ravi Ratnayeke	did not bat	0	0
Guy de Alwis	did not bat	0	0
Ashantha de Mel	did not bat	0	0
Don Anurasiri	did not bat	0	0
Kosala Kuruppuarachchi	did not bat	0	0

Imran Khan 7.00-2-18-2Wasim Akram 6.00-1-10-0

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