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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England v West Indies 3rd Test

West Indies tour of England - 1963 (1963) · Edgbaston, Birmingham · 4 July 1963 · England won the toss and chose to bat

England won by 217 runs

England won by 217 runs. Phil Sharpe top-scored with 85* for England.

England ARCHIVE West Indies ARCHIVE 1963 TESTS Edgbaston ARCHIVE

England, 207 (10 wkts)

Peter Richardson	bowled	2	8
Micky Stewart	lbw	39	88
Ted Dexter	bowled	29	50
Ken Barrington	bowled	9	46
Brian Close	lbw	55	175
Phil Sharpe	caught (Rohan Kanhai)	23	64
Jim Parks	caught (Deryck Murray)	12	50
Fred Titmus	caught (Charlie Griffith)	27	80
Fred Trueman	bowled	4	11
Tony Lock	bowled	1	3
Derek Shackleton	not out	6	22

Wes Hall 16.40-2-56-2Charlie Griffith 21.00-5-48-2Garry Sobers 31.00-10-60-5Frank Worrell 14.00-5-15-0Lance Gibbs 16.00-7-28-1

West Indies, 178 (10 wkts)

Lance Gibbs	bowled	0	1
Conrad Hunte	bowled	18	71
Joey Carew	caught (Fred Trueman)	40	87
Rohan Kanhai	caught (Tony Lock)	32	60
Basil Butcher	lbw	15	65
Joe Solomon	lbw	0	6
Garry Sobers	bowled	19	26
Frank Worrell	bowled	1	2
Deryck Murray	not out	20	51
Wes Hall	caught (Phil Sharpe)	28	36
Charlie Griffith	lbw	5	10

Fred Trueman 26.00-5-75-5Derek Shackleton 21.00-9-60-1Tony Lock 2.00-1-5-0Ted Dexter 20.00-5-38-4

England, 259 (9 wkts)

Peter Richardson	caught (Deryck Murray)	14	29
Micky Stewart	caught (Deryck Murray)	27	86
Ken Barrington	bowled	1	4
Brian Close	caught (Garry Sobers)	13	41
Ted Dexter	stumping (Deryck Murray)	57	127
Phil Sharpe	not out	85	199
Jim Parks	caught (Garry Sobers)	5	16
Fred Titmus	bowled	0	2
Fred Trueman	caught (Lance Gibbs)	1	12
Tony Lock	bowled	56	116
Derek Shackleton	did not bat	0	0

Wes Hall 16.00-1-47-0Charlie Griffith 28.00-7-55-3Garry Sobers 27.00-4-80-2Frank Worrell 8.00-3-28-0Lance Gibbs 26.20-4-49-4

West Indies, 88 (10 wkts)

Conrad Hunte	caught (Ken Barrington)	5	9
Joey Carew	lbw	1	4
Rohan Kanhai	caught (Tony Lock)	38	73
Basil Butcher	bowled	14	39
Garry Sobers	caught (Phil Sharpe)	9	23
Joe Solomon	caught (Jim Parks)	14	37
Frank Worrell	caught (Jim Parks)	0	7
Deryck Murray	caught (Jim Parks)	3	7
Wes Hall	bowled	0	4
Charlie Griffith	lbw	0	2
Lance Gibbs	not out	4	4

Fred Trueman 14.30-2-44-7Derek Shackleton 17.00-4-37-2Ted Dexter 3.00-1-7-1

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