The Test match archive

This is the complete men's Test record as CricArcade holds it: 2,537 matches from the first Test at Melbourne in 1877 through to March 2024, played at 151 grounds by 3,274 cricketers. Every entry is a real match. Nothing simulated is mixed in, and no match is assembled from fragments of others.

Each scorecard carries both sides' innings in full: every batter with how they were dismissed and off how many balls, every bowler with overs, maidens, runs and wickets, the extras, the partnerships and the fall of wickets. Where a figure could not be established from the source scorecards it is left blank rather than estimated, which is why a handful of nineteenth-century matches carry a bowling column and no ball-by-ball detail.

Three ways in, depending on what you remember. If you know the player, the player database lists every Test cricketer with the matches they appear in. If you know the ground, the venue pages are usually the fastest route to a match whose date has gone. If you know roughly when, search or filter the table below. Everything cross-links, so the second question is always a click from the first.

This archive is the reference The Follow-On is built on, and it is free to read whether you play or not. The guides explain how to read a scorecard and what the Test-specific numbers mean.