GUIDES

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 - 1997 (1997/98) · Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar · 17 November 1997 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

Pakistan won by an innings and 19 runs · Man of the Match: Mushtaq Ahmed

Pakistan won by an innings and 19 runs. Inzamam-ul-Haq top-scored with 92* for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Mushtaq Ahmed.

West Indies ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1997 TESTS Arbab Niaz Stadium ARCHIVE

West Indies, 143 (10 wkts)

Stuart Williams	caught (Moin Khan)	4	12
Sherwin Campbell	lbw	15	49
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	bowled	0	2
Brian Lara	caught (Mushtaq Ahmed)	3	13
Carl Hooper	caught (Mohammad Wasim)	26	60
Phil Simmons	bowled	1	10
David Williams	bowled	31	77
Rawl Lewis	bowled	4	12
Ian Bishop	bowled	20	69
Curtly Ambrose	lbw	30	45
Courtney Walsh	not out	9	17

Wasim Akram 14.00-5-29-1Shahid Nazir 10.00-1-32-2Azhar Mahmood 14.00-2-35-2Mushtaq Ahmed 18.30-7-35-5Arshad Khan 4.00-1-14-0

Pakistan, 359 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	caught (David Williams)	65	117
Aamer Sohail	caught (Brian Lara)	4	10
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Carl Hooper)	65	134
Mohammad Wasim	bowled	28	74
Inzamam-ul-Haq	not out	92	191
Moin Khan	caught (Courtney Walsh)	58	124
Wasim Akram	stumping (David Williams)	5	24
Azhar Mahmood	caught (Carl Hooper)	16	44
Arshad Khan	caught (Brian Lara)	4	22
Shahid Nazir	bowled	18	43
Mushtaq Ahmed	bowled	4	22

Curtly Ambrose 25.00-4-76-0Courtney Walsh 32.00-9-78-5Ian Bishop 29.00-7-76-3Phil Simmons 2.00-0-9-0Rawl Lewis 24.00-6-93-0Carl Hooper 20.00-7-40-2

West Indies, 191 (10 wkts)

Stuart Williams	lbw	2	6
Sherwin Campbell	lbw	66	170
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	caught (Ijaz Ahmed)	14	46
Brian Lara	lbw	37	48
Carl Hooper	caught (Saqlain Mushtaq)	23	32
Phil Simmons	caught (Wasim Akram)	1	4
David Williams	caught (Ijaz Ahmed)	20	76
Rawl Lewis	lbw	0	1
Ian Bishop	lbw	21	28
Curtly Ambrose	stumping (Mohammad Wasim)	1	9
Courtney Walsh	not out	6	10

Wasim Akram 23.20-5-65-4Shahid Nazir 7.50-1-27-0Azhar Mahmood 10.10-3-17-1Mushtaq Ahmed 23.00-5-71-5Arshad Khan 6.00-2-18-0

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