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

Australia v West Indies 5th Test

West Indies tour of Australia - 1930 (1930/31) · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney · 27 February 1931 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

West Indies won by 30 runs

West Indies won by 30 runs. Freddie Martin top-scored with 123* for West Indies.

West Indies ARCHIVE Australia ARCHIVE 1931 TESTS Sydney Cricket Ground ARCHIVE

West Indies, 332 (6 wkts)

Freddie Martin	not out	123	0
Clifford Roach	lbw	31	0
George Headley	lbw	105	0
Jackie Grant	caught (Stan McCabe)	62	0
Derek Sealy	caught (Alan Kippax)	4	0
Baron Constantine	caught (Stan McCabe)	0	0
Barto Bartlett	bowled	0	0
Ivan Barrow	not out	7	0
Tommy Scott	did not bat	0	0
George Francis	did not bat	0	0
Herman Griffith	did not bat	0	0

Alan Fairfax 21.00-2-60-0Ron Oxenham 24.00-10-51-0Bert Ironmonger 42.00-16-95-2Clarrie Grimmett 33.00-7-100-3Stan McCabe 15.00-5-26-1

Australia, 216 (10 wkts)

Bill Woodfull	caught (Baron Constantine)	22	0
Bill Ponsford	caught (Barto Bartlett)	7	0
Donald Bradman	caught (George Francis)	43	0
Alan Kippax	caught (Derek Sealy)	3	0
Keith Rigg	caught (Ivan Barrow)	14	0
Stan McCabe	caught (George Headley)	21	0
Alan Fairfax	stumping (Ivan Barrow)	54	0
Ron Oxenham	caught (Ivan Barrow)	0	0
Bert Oldfield	run out	36	0
Clarrie Grimmett	not out	15	0
Bert Ironmonger	bowled	1	0

George Francis 19.00-6-48-4Herman Griffith 13.20-3-31-1Freddie Martin 27.00-3-67-2Baron Constantine 10.00-2-28-1Tommy Scott 10.00-1-42-1

West Indies, 122 (5 wkts)

Freddie Martin	caught (Stan McCabe)	20	0
Clifford Roach	caught (Bert Oldfield)	34	0
George Headley	bowled	30	0
Jackie Grant	not out	27	0
Derek Sealy	run out	7	0
Baron Constantine	caught (Donald Bradman)	4	0
Barto Bartlett	not out	0	0
Ivan Barrow	did not bat	0	0
Tommy Scott	did not bat	0	0
George Francis	did not bat	0	0
Herman Griffith	did not bat	0	0

Ron Oxenham 10.00-4-14-1Bert Ironmonger 16.00-7-44-2Clarrie Grimmett 18.00-4-47-1Stan McCabe 7.00-2-17-0

Australia, 206 (10 wkts)

Bill Woodfull	caught (Baron Constantine)	18	0
Bill Ponsford	caught (Baron Constantine)	28	0
Donald Bradman	bowled	0	0
Alan Kippax	caught (Clifford Roach)	10	0
Bert Oldfield	lbw	0	1
Keith Rigg	caught (Ivan Barrow)	16	0
Alan Fairfax	not out	60	0
Stan McCabe	caught (Jackie Grant)	44	0
Ron Oxenham	lbw	14	0
Clarrie Grimmett	caught (Baron Constantine)	12	0
Bert Ironmonger	run out	4	0

George Francis 16.00-2-32-0Herman Griffith 13.30-3-50-4Freddie Martin 18.00-4-44-2Baron Constantine 17.00-2-50-2Tommy Scott 11.00-0-30-1

← South Africa v England New Zealand v England →

Want to captain one of these sides yourself?

PLAY THE FOLLOW-ON →