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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Pakistan v West Indies 2nd Test

West Indies tour of Pakistan - 1959 (1958/59) · Dacca Stadium, Dhaka · 6 March 1959 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl

Pakistan won by 41 runs

Pakistan won by 41 runs. Wallis Mathias top-scored with 64 for Pakistan.

Pakistan ARCHIVE West Indies ARCHIVE 1959 TESTS Dacca Stadium ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 135 (10 wkts)

Ijaz Butt	bowled	2	0
Alimuddin	caught (Wes Hall)	6	0
Saeed Ahmed	caught (Gerry Alexander)	6	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	bowled	3	0
Wazir Mohammad	bowled	1	0
Wallis Mathias	caught (Eric Atkinson)	64	0
Shujauddin	bowled	26	0
Fazal Mahmood	caught (Gerry Alexander)	12	0
Nasim-ul-Ghani	run out	7	0
Mahmood Hussain	bowled	4	0
Haseeb Ahsan	not out	4	0

Wes Hall 13.00-5-28-4Eric Atkinson 10.00-2-22-1Sonny Ramadhin 23.30-6-45-3Lance Gibbs 21.00-8-33-1Garry Sobers 8.00-4-7-0

West Indies, 62 (10 wkts)

John Holt	bowled	4	0
Rohan Kanhai	caught (Wazir Mohammad)	4	0
Garry Sobers	lbw	29	0
Gerry Alexander	stumping (Imtiaz Ahmed)	14	0
Basil Butcher	caught (Shujauddin)	11	0
Collie Smith	caught (Nasim-ul-Ghani)	0	0
Joe Solomon	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	0	0
Eric Atkinson	caught (Wallis Mathias)	0	0
Lance Gibbs	stumping (Imtiaz Ahmed)	0	0
Wes Hall	caught (Wallis Mathias)	0	0
Sonny Ramadhin	not out	0	0

Fazal Mahmood 18.30-9-34-6Mahmood Hussain 10.00-1-21-1Nasim-ul-Ghani 7.00-5-4-3Haseeb Ahsan 1.00-0-3-0

Pakistan, 122 (10 wkts)

Ijaz Butt	bowled	21	0
Alimuddin	caught (Collie Smith)	0	0
Saeed Ahmed	lbw	22	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	caught (Collie Smith)	4	0
Wazir Mohammad	caught (Gerry Alexander)	4	0
Wallis Mathias	bowled	45	0
Shujauddin	bowled	17	0
Nasim-ul-Ghani	bowled	0	0
Fazal Mahmood	not out	7	0
Mahmood Hussain	bowled	2	0
Haseeb Ahsan	bowled	0	0

Wes Hall 16.50-2-49-4Eric Atkinson 22.00-9-42-4Sonny Ramadhin 15.00-9-10-2Lance Gibbs 6.00-0-17-0Garry Sobers 3.00-2-4-0

West Indies, 161 (10 wkts)

John Holt	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	5	0
Gerry Alexander	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	18	0
Rohan Kanhai	lbw	8	0
Basil Butcher	bowled	8	0
Garry Sobers	caught (Fazal Mahmood)	45	0
Collie Smith	bowled	39	0
Joe Solomon	caught (Mahmood Hussain)	8	0
Lance Gibbs	bowled	0	0
Eric Atkinson	lbw	20	0
Wes Hall	lbw	6	0
Sonny Ramadhin	not out	4	0

Fazal Mahmood 27.00-10-66-6Mahmood Hussain 19.50-1-48-4Nasim-ul-Ghani 8.00-2-34-0Shujauddin 6.00-2-13-0

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