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.

Three games · One XI

All-time Test Captain · 1877 – present · every player · real stats

Discord Updates← ARCHIVE

England v Australia 1st Test

Australia tour of England - 1961 (1961) · Edgbaston, Birmingham · 8 June 1961 · England won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Ted Dexter top-scored with 180 for England.

England ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1961 TESTS Edgbaston ARCHIVE

England, 189 (10 wkts)

Geoff Pullar	bowled	17	0
Raman Subba Row	caught (Bob Simpson)	59	0
Ted Dexter	caught (Alan Davidson)	10	0
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	13	0
Ken Barrington	caught (Frank Misson)	21	0
Mike Smith	caught (Bill Lawry)	0	2
Ray Illingworth	caught (Wally Grout)	15	0
John Murray	caught (Alan Davidson)	16	0
David Allen	run out	11	0
Fred Trueman	caught (Peter Burge)	20	0
Brian Statham	not out	7	0

Alan Davidson 26.00-6-70-1Frank Misson 15.00-6-47-1Ken Mackay 29.00-10-57-4Richie Benaud 14.30-8-15-3

Australia, 503 (9 wkts)

Bill Lawry	caught (John Murray)	57	0
Colin McDonald	caught (Ray Illingworth)	22	0
Neil Harvey	lbw	114	0
Norm O'Neill	bowled	82	0
Peter Burge	lbw	25	0
Bob Simpson	caught (Fred Trueman)	76	0
Alan Davidson	caught (Ray Illingworth)	22	0
Ken Mackay	caught (Ken Barrington)	64	0
Richie Benaud	not out	36	0
Wally Grout	caught (Ted Dexter)	5	0
Frank Misson	did not bat	0	0

Fred Trueman 36.50-1-136-2Brian Statham 43.00-6-147-3Ray Illingworth 44.00-12-110-2David Allen 24.00-4-88-2Ted Dexter 5.00-1-22-0

England, 383 (4 wkts)

Geoff Pullar	caught (Wally Grout)	28	0
Raman Subba Row	bowled	112	0
Ted Dexter	stumping (Wally Grout)	180	0
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	14	0
Ken Barrington	not out	48	0
Mike Smith	not out	1	0
Ray Illingworth	did not bat	0	0
John Murray	did not bat	0	0
David Allen	did not bat	0	0
Fred Trueman	did not bat	0	0
Brian Statham	did not bat	0	0

Alan Davidson 31.00-10-60-0Frank Misson 28.00-6-82-2Bob Simpson 34.00-12-87-1Ken Mackay 41.00-13-87-1Richie Benaud 20.00-4-67-0

← West Indies v Australia England v Australia →

Want to captain one of these sides yourself?

PLAY THE FOLLOW-ON →