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 2nd Test

West Indies tour of Pakistan - 1997 (1997/98) · Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi · 29 November 1997 · Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl

Pakistan won by an innings and 29 runs · Man of the Match: Inzamam-ul-Haq

Pakistan won by an innings and 29 runs. Inzamam-ul-Haq top-scored with 177 for Pakistan. Man of the Match: Inzamam-ul-Haq.

West Indies ARCHIVE Pakistan ARCHIVE 1997 TESTS Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium ARCHIVE

West Indies, 276 (10 wkts)

Sherwin Campbell	caught (Shoaib Akhtar)	78	254
Philo Wallace	lbw	5	30
Stuart Williams	caught (Mushtaq Ahmed)	8	43
Brian Lara	bowled	15	9
Carl Hooper	caught (Moin Khan)	0	3
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	lbw	95	154
David Williams	caught (Moin Khan)	48	84
Ian Bishop	bowled	10	9
Curtly Ambrose	not out	10	25
Franklyn Rose	bowled	7	5
Courtney Walsh	lbw	0	2

Wasim Akram 22.00-6-40-1Waqar Younis 27.00-3-99-3Shoaib Akhtar 15.00-2-47-2Azhar Mahmood 20.50-7-53-4Mushtaq Ahmed 17.00-3-47-0

Pakistan, 418 (10 wkts)

Saeed Anwar	caught (David Williams)	16	31
Aamer Sohail	caught (Phil Simmons)	160	297
Ijaz Ahmed	caught (Philo Wallace)	10	9
Inzamam-ul-Haq	caught (Sherwin Campbell)	177	320
Mohammad Wasim	caught (Carl Hooper)	26	119
Moin Khan	caught (David Williams)	1	7
Azhar Mahmood	caught (David Williams)	14	23
Wasim Akram	bowled	11	24
Waqar Younis	lbw	2	11
Mushtaq Ahmed	not out	0	4
Shoaib Akhtar	caught (Carl Hooper)	1	2

Courtney Walsh 43.10-6-143-5Curtly Ambrose 19.00-2-63-1Ian Bishop 24.00-3-80-1Franklyn Rose 33.00-7-92-3Carl Hooper 17.00-1-71-0

West Indies, 132 (10 wkts)

Sherwin Campbell	bowled	34	79
Philo Wallace	lbw	8	10
Stuart Williams	caught (Azhar Mahmood)	1	8
Brian Lara	caught (Wasim Akram)	1	16
Carl Hooper	not out	73	94
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	lbw	7	15
David Williams	run out (Mushtaq Ahmed)	0	1
Ian Bishop	run out (Ijaz Ahmed)	2	16
Franklyn Rose	caught (Mushtaq Ahmed)	6	6
Courtney Walsh	run out (Mushtaq Ahmed)	0	6
Curtly Ambrose	bowled	0	2

Wasim Akram 14.00-5-42-4Waqar Younis 12.00-0-44-2Shoaib Akhtar 7.00-2-21-0Azhar Mahmood 2.00-1-4-0Mushtaq Ahmed 6.00-3-28-1

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