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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 3rd Test

West Indies tour of Pakistan - 1986 (1986/87) · National Stadium, Karachi · 20 November 1986 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn · Man of the Match: Imran Khan

Match drawn. Desmond Haynes top-scored with 88* for West Indies. Man of the Match: Imran Khan.

West Indies ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1986 TESTS National Stadium ARCHIVE

West Indies, 211 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	27	61
Desmond Haynes	lbw	3	12
Richie Richardson	caught (Asif Mujtaba)	44	87
Larry Gomes	lbw	18	44
Viv Richards	caught (Ramiz Raja)	70	100
Jeff Dujon	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	19	54
Roger Harper	lbw	9	98
Malcolm Marshall	bowled	4	18
Clyde Butts	lbw	17	38
Tony Gray	caught (Imran Khan)	0	5
Courtney Walsh	not out	0	16

Imran Khan 19.00-4-32-2Saleem Jaffar 15.00-5-34-1Mudassar Nazar 4.00-0-15-1Abdul Qadir 31.50-3-107-4Tauseef Ahmed 17.00-7-27-2

Pakistan, 215 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	bowled	16	50
Mohsin Khan	caught (Viv Richards)	1	19
Ramiz Raja	caught (Roger Harper)	62	162
Javed Miandad	run out	76	112
Imran Khan	lbw	1	26
Asif Mujtaba	caught (Jeff Dujon)	12	54
Qasim Umar	caught (Richie Richardson)	5	27
Saleem Yousuf	caught (Courtney Walsh)	22	79
Tauseef Ahmed	caught (Richie Richardson)	3	12
Saleem Jaffar	bowled	9	15
Abdul Qadir	not out	8	10

Malcolm Marshall 33.00-9-57-2Tony Gray 21.10-6-40-3Roger Harper 7.00-0-31-0Courtney Walsh 11.00-2-17-0Clyde Butts 38.00-15-73-4

West Indies, 183 (10 wkts)

Gordon Greenidge	bowled	8	32
Desmond Haynes	not out	88	289
Richie Richardson	caught (Ramiz Raja)	32	93
Larry Gomes	lbw	5	33
Viv Richards	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	28	28
Jeff Dujon	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	6	24
Roger Harper	bowled	4	43
Malcolm Marshall	lbw	0	1
Clyde Butts	caught (Mohsin Khan)	12	32
Tony Gray	bowled	0	6
Courtney Walsh	bowled	0	1

Imran Khan 22.30-2-46-6Saleem Jaffar 14.00-4-23-1Tauseef Ahmed 12.00-2-36-0Abdul Qadir 44.00-9-84-3Asif Mujtaba 3.00-2-2-0

Pakistan, 101 (7 wkts)

Qasim Umar	caught (Jeff Dujon)	1	4
Mohsin Khan	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	4	18
Saleem Yousuf	caught (Desmond Haynes)	10	12
Ramiz Raja	bowled	29	162
Javed Miandad	bowled	4	22
Mudassar Nazar	lbw	25	78
Asif Mujtaba	caught (Jeff Dujon)	6	46
Imran Khan	not out	15	64
Tauseef Ahmed	not out	7	65
Saleem Jaffar	did not bat	0	0
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0

Malcolm Marshall 19.00-5-31-3Tony Gray 14.00-7-18-1Courtney Walsh 22.00-11-30-1Clyde Butts 22.00-9-22-2Roger Harper 1.00-0-1-0

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