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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 West Indies 1st Test

West Indies tour of Pakistan - 1959 (1958/59) · National Stadium, Karachi · 20 February 1959 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

Pakistan won by 10 wickets

Pakistan won by 10 wickets. Hanif Mohammad top-scored with 103 for Pakistan.

West Indies ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1959 TESTS National Stadium ARCHIVE

West Indies, 133 (10 wkts)

Conrad Hunte	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	0	4
John Holt	lbw	29	0
Rohan Kanhai	caught (Hanif Mohammad)	33	0
Garry Sobers	lbw	0	3
Collie Smith	stumping (Imtiaz Ahmed)	0	0
Basil Butcher	not out	45	0
Joe Solomon	caught (Hanif Mohammad)	14	0
Gerry Alexander	bowled	0	0
Lance Gibbs	bowled	5	0
Wes Hall	bowled	7	0
Jaswick Taylor	bowled	0	0

Fazal Mahmood 22.00-9-35-4Mahmood Hussain 8.00-3-13-0Antao D'Souza 14.00-0-50-2Nasim-ul-Ghani 16.00-5-35-4

Pakistan, 281 (10 wkts)

Hanif Mohammad	caught (Gerry Alexander)	103	0
Ijaz Butt	caught (Gerry Alexander)	14	0
Saeed Ahmed	run out	78	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	lbw	31	0
Wazir Mohammad	stumping (Gerry Alexander)	23	0
Wallis Mathias	bowled	16	0
Fazal Mahmood	caught (Gerry Alexander)	0	0
Shujauddin	run out	1	0
Nasim-ul-Ghani	bowled	11	0
Mahmood Hussain	bowled	1	0
Antao D'Souza	not out	3	0

Wes Hall 30.00-7-57-3Jaswick Taylor 21.00-7-43-0Lance Gibbs 38.20-13-92-3Garry Sobers 40.00-24-45-0Collie Smith 27.00-14-36-2Joe Solomon 4.00-1-8-0

West Indies, 228 (10 wkts)

Conrad Hunte	lbw	21	0
John Holt	caught (Ijaz Butt)	2	0
Rohan Kanhai	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	12	0
Basil Butcher	caught (Imtiaz Ahmed)	61	0
Collie Smith	lbw	11	0
Garry Sobers	lbw	14	0
Joe Solomon	run out	66	0
Gerry Alexander	lbw	16	0
Lance Gibbs	bowled	21	0
Wes Hall	stumping (Imtiaz Ahmed)	4	0
Jaswick Taylor	not out	0	0

Fazal Mahmood 36.00-9-89-3Mahmood Hussain 26.00-10-59-2Antao D'Souza 13.00-5-28-0Nasim-ul-Ghani 25.00-16-34-1Shujauddin 13.00-7-18-3

Pakistan, 79 (0 wkts)

Hanif Mohammad	not out	5	0
Ijaz Butt	not out	41	0
Saeed Ahmed	not out	33	0
Imtiaz Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Wazir Mohammad	did not bat	0	0
Wallis Mathias	did not bat	0	0
Fazal Mahmood	did not bat	0	0
Shujauddin	did not bat	0	0
Nasim-ul-Ghani	did not bat	0	0
Mahmood Hussain	did not bat	0	0
Antao D'Souza	did not bat	0	0

Wes Hall 8.00-1-35-0Jaswick Taylor 6.00-2-15-0Lance Gibbs 7.00-4-8-0Garry Sobers 9.00-5-12-0Collie Smith 3.00-2-9-0John Holt 1.00-1-0-0

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