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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 3rd Test

Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka - 1986 (1985/86) · P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo · 22 March 1986 · Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Asanka Gurusinha

Match drawn. Arjuna Ranatunga top-scored with 135* for Sri Lanka. Man of the Match: Asanka Gurusinha.

Sri Lanka ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1986 TESTS P Saravanamuttu Stadium ARCHIVE

Sri Lanka, 256 (10 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	caught (Ramiz Raja)	0	0
Roshan Mahanama	caught (Zulqarnain)	41	0
Asanka Gurusinha	caught (Zulqarnain)	39	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	caught (Imran Khan)	53	0
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Mohsin Khan)	16	0
Duleep Mendis	caught (Zulqarnain)	58	0
Ravi Ratnayeke	caught (Javed Miandad)	7	0
Guy de Alwis	bowled	18	0
Ashantha de Mel	not out	14	0
Don Anurasiri	bowled	8	0
Kaushik Amalean	lbw	2	0

Imran Khan 32.00-11-69-4Wasim Akram 22.00-8-41-1Zakir Khan 24.00-6-80-3Mudassar Nazar 7.00-2-19-0Abdul Qadir 23.50-3-56-2

Pakistan, 290 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	caught (Guy de Alwis)	8	0
Mohsin Khan	lbw	12	0
Qasim Umar	caught (Guy de Alwis)	19	0
Javed Miandad	lbw	23	0
Ramiz Raja	lbw	122	242
Saleem Malik	caught (Sanath Kaluperuma)	29	0
Imran Khan	caught (Guy de Alwis)	33	0
Abdul Qadir	bowled	20	0
Zulqarnain	caught (Guy de Alwis)	13	0
Wasim Akram	run out	11	0
Zakir Khan	not out	0	0

Ashantha de Mel 27.00-3-91-1Kaushik Amalean 18.20-1-59-3Ravi Ratnayeke 30.00-4-116-4Don Anurasiri 15.00-11-9-0Arjuna Ranatunga 11.00-5-26-1

Sri Lanka, 294 (3 wkts)

Sidath Wettimuny	caught (Ramiz Raja)	14	0
Roshan Mahanama	bowled	4	0
Asanka Gurusinha	not out	116	307
Aravinda de Silva	caught (Javed Miandad)	25	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	not out	135	208
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
Kaushik Amalean	did not bat	0	0

Imran Khan 25.00-4-56-2Wasim Akram 29.00-11-72-1Zakir Khan 21.00-4-70-0Mudassar Nazar 10.00-2-29-0Abdul Qadir 22.00-5-70-0Saleem Malik 1.00-1-0-0

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