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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 South Africa 2nd Test

South Africa tour of Pakistan - 1997 (1997/98) · Sheikhupura Stadium, Sheikhupura · 17 October 1997 · South Africa won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Adam Bacher top-scored with 96 for South Africa.

South Africa ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1997 TESTS Sheikhupura Stadium ARCHIVE

South Africa, 387 (10 wkts)

Gary Kirsten	bowled	56	142
Adam Bacher	caught (Moin Khan)	96	191
Brian McMillan	caught (Moin Khan)	7	13
Daryll Cullinan	caught (Mohammad Wasim)	1	17
Hansie Cronje	caught	50	90
Jonty Rhodes	bowled	11	12
Shaun Pollock	caught (Ali Naqvi)	82	129
Lance Klusener	lbw	58	54
Mark Boucher	bowled	6	12
Pat Symcox	caught (Mohammad Wasim)	17	36
Paul Adams	not out	3	6

Wasim Akram 13.00-3-26-1Azhar Mahmood 14.00-3-52-2Mushtaq Ahmed 38.00-12-122-4Saqlain Mushtaq 32.00-7-120-1Ali Hussain Rizvi 18.30-1-72-2

Pakistan, 47 (1 wkts)

Ali Naqvi	not out	30	55
Saeed Anwar	bowled	17	47
Saqlain Mushtaq	not out	0	3
Ijaz Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Inzamam-ul-Haq	did not bat	0	0
Mohammad Wasim	did not bat	0	0
Azhar Mahmood	did not bat	0	0
Moin Khan	did not bat	0	0
Wasim Akram	did not bat	0	0
Mushtaq Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Ali Hussain Rizvi	did not bat	0	0

Shaun Pollock 7.00-1-35-0Lance Klusener 6.00-1-14-0Paul Adams 2.00-2-0-0Pat Symcox 2.00-2-0-1

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