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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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Pakistan v Zimbabwe 1st Test

Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan - 1998 (1998/99) · Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar · 27 November 1998 · Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bowl

Zimbabwe won by 7 wickets · Man of the Match: Neil Johnson

Zimbabwe won by 7 wickets. Neil Johnson top-scored with 107 for Zimbabwe. Man of the Match: Neil Johnson.

Pakistan ARCHIVE Zimbabwe ARCHIVE 1998 TESTS Arbab Niaz Stadium ARCHIVE

Pakistan, 275 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	bowled	36	62
Aamer Sohail	caught (Andy Flower)	15	45
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Andy Whittall)	87	128
Inzamam-ul-Haq	lbw	19	25
Mohammad Yousuf	caught (Alistair Campbell)	75	164
Moin Khan	caught (Pommie Mbangwa)	15	28
Azhar Mahmood	caught (Andy Flower)	11	41
Wasim Akram	bowled	10	16
Mushtaq Ahmed	lbw	0	1
Waqar Younis	lbw	6	14
Aaqib Javed	not out	1	2

Heath Streak 22.50-2-93-4Henry Olonga 17.00-3-47-2Neil Johnson 18.00-2-76-1Pommie Mbangwa 23.00-9-40-3Andy Whittall 5.00-0-30-0

Zimbabwe, 213 (10 wkts)

Gavin Rennie	lbw	2	12
Grant Flower	caught (Azhar Mahmood)	15	96
Murray Goodwin	lbw	29	52
Alistair Campbell	lbw	16	27
Andy Flower	bowled	0	1
Neil Johnson	caught (Azhar Mahmood)	107	117
Craig Wishart	bowled	3	17
Heath Streak	bowled	24	62
Andy Whittall	caught (Azhar Mahmood)	13	27
Henry Olonga	lbw	3	16
Pommie Mbangwa	not out	1	3

Wasim Akram 23.00-5-52-5Waqar Younis 20.30-2-78-4Aaqib Javed 14.00-2-52-0Azhar Mahmood 6.00-0-28-0Mushtaq Ahmed 5.00-0-22-1

Pakistan, 92 (10 wkts)

Aamer Sohail	caught (Henry Olonga)	2	8
Azhar Mahmood	caught (Andy Flower)	5	4
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Alistair Campbell)	0	5
Inzamam-ul-Haq	bowled	2	8
Mohammad Yousuf	bowled	14	33
Moin Khan	bowled	6	21
Saeed Anwar	caught (Andy Flower)	31	76
Wasim Akram	caught (Henry Olonga)	31	55
Mushtaq Ahmed	run out (Neil Johnson)	0	4
Waqar Younis	not out	1	7
Aaqib Javed	caught (Craig Wishart)	0	5

Heath Streak 12.50-3-19-2Henry Olonga 11.00-1-42-4Pommie Mbangwa 7.00-2-23-3Neil Johnson 6.00-2-13-0

Zimbabwe, 139 (3 wkts)

Gavin Rennie	caught (Ijaz Ahmed)	6	25
Grant Flower	caught (Moin Khan)	31	101
Murray Goodwin	not out	73	124
Alistair Campbell	caught (Ijaz Ahmed)	12	10
Andy Flower	not out	17	39
Craig Wishart	did not bat	0	0
Heath Streak	did not bat	0	0
Pommie Mbangwa	did not bat	0	0
Henry Olonga	did not bat	0	0
Andy Whittall	did not bat	0	0
Neil Johnson	did not bat	0	0

Wasim Akram 17.00-6-47-3Waqar Younis 11.00-1-51-0Aaqib Javed 13.20-4-36-0Azhar Mahmood 3.00-1-3-0Mushtaq Ahmed 4.00-2-13-0

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