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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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West Indies v Pakistan 1st Test

Pakistan tour of West Indies - 1988 (1987/88) · Bourda, Georgetown · 2 April 1988 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

Pakistan won by 9 wickets · Man of the Match: Imran Khan

Pakistan won by 9 wickets. Javed Miandad top-scored with 114 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Imran Khan.

West Indies ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1988 TESTS Bourda ARCHIVE

West Indies, 281 (10 wkts)

Desmond Haynes	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	1	14
Phil Simmons	bowled	16	23
Richie Richardson	caught (Shoaib Mohammad)	75	84
Gordon Greenidge	caught (Saleem Malik)	17	53
Gus Logie	lbw	80	96
Carl Hooper	caught (Wasim Akram)	33	100
Jeff Dujon	lbw	15	28
Winston Benjamin	lbw	2	13
Courtney Walsh	bowled	7	7
Curtly Ambrose	not out	25	43
Patrick Patterson	bowled	10	24

Imran Khan 22.40-2-80-7Wasim Akram 14.00-5-41-1Ijaz Faqih 14.00-0-60-1Abdul Qadir 24.00-2-91-1Saleem Malik 1.00-0-6-0Mudassar Nazar 5.00-2-9-0

Pakistan, 364 (10 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	bowled	29	39
Ramiz Raja	caught (Desmond Haynes)	5	11
Shoaib Mohammad	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	46	67
Javed Miandad	bowled	114	235
Saleem Malik	caught (Gordon Greenidge)	27	97
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Desmond Haynes)	31	85
Imran Khan	caught (Phil Simmons)	24	31
Saleem Yousuf	lbw	62	103
Ijaz Faqih	bowled	5	22
Abdul Qadir	bowled	19	55
Wasim Akram	not out	2	6

Patrick Patterson 24.00-1-82-3Curtly Ambrose 28.00-5-108-2Courtney Walsh 27.00-4-80-3Winston Benjamin 31.00-3-99-1Carl Hooper 12.00-0-37-1

West Indies, 155 (10 wkts)

Desmond Haynes	bowled	5	31
Phil Simmons	bowled	11	46
Richie Richardson	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	16	39
Gordon Greenidge	bowled	43	91
Gus Logie	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	24	29
Carl Hooper	caught (Saleem Malik)	30	79
Jeff Dujon	caught (Imran Khan)	11	38
Winston Benjamin	caught (Javed Miandad)	0	1
Courtney Walsh	caught (Saleem Yousuf)	14	20
Curtly Ambrose	not out	1	3
Patrick Patterson	bowled	0	1

Wasim Akram 6.00-1-7-0Imran Khan 14.40-0-41-4Ijaz Faqih 15.00-4-38-1Abdul Qadir 25.00-5-66-3Shoaib Mohammad 2.00-0-8-2

Pakistan, 31 (1 wkts)

Mudassar Nazar	lbw	0	3
Ramiz Raja	not out	18	11
Shoaib Mohammad	not out	13	10
Javed Miandad	did not bat	0	0
Saleem Malik	did not bat	0	0
Ijaz Ahmed	did not bat	0	0
Imran Khan	did not bat	0	0
Saleem Yousuf	did not bat	0	0
Ijaz Faqih	did not bat	0	0
Abdul Qadir	did not bat	0	0
Wasim Akram	did not bat	0	0

Patrick Patterson 2.00-0-19-1Curtly Ambrose 1.30-0-13-0

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