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 2nd Test

West Indies tour of England - 1963 (1963) · Lord's, London · 20 June 1963 · West Indies won the toss and chose to bat

Match drawn

Match drawn. Basil Butcher top-scored with 133 for West Indies.

West Indies ARCHIVE England ARCHIVE 1963 TESTS Lord's ARCHIVE

West Indies, 290 (10 wkts)

Conrad Hunte	caught (Brian Close)	44	0
Easton McMorris	lbw	16	0
Garry Sobers	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	42	0
Rohan Kanhai	caught (John Edrich)	73	0
Basil Butcher	caught (Ken Barrington)	14	0
Joe Solomon	lbw	56	0
Frank Worrell	bowled	0	0
Deryck Murray	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	20	0
Wes Hall	not out	25	0
Charlie Griffith	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	0	1
Lance Gibbs	caught (Micky Stewart)	0	2

Fred Trueman 44.00-16-100-6Derek Shackleton 50.20-22-93-3Ted Dexter 20.00-6-41-0Brian Close 9.00-3-21-0David Allen 10.00-3-35-1

England, 272 (10 wkts)

Micky Stewart	caught (Rohan Kanhai)	2	19
John Edrich	caught (Deryck Murray)	0	1
Ted Dexter	lbw	70	75
Ken Barrington	caught (Garry Sobers)	80	0
Colin Cowdrey	bowled	4	0
Brian Close	caught (Deryck Murray)	9	0
Jim Parks	bowled	35	0
Fred Titmus	not out	52	0
Fred Trueman	bowled	10	0
David Allen	lbw	2	0
Derek Shackleton	bowled	8	0

Wes Hall 18.00-2-65-1Charlie Griffith 26.00-6-91-5Garry Sobers 18.00-4-45-1Lance Gibbs 27.00-9-59-1Frank Worrell 13.00-6-12-2

West Indies, 221 (10 wkts)

Conrad Hunte	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	7	0
Easton McMorris	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	8	0
Rohan Kanhai	caught (Colin Cowdrey)	21	0
Basil Butcher	lbw	133	261
Garry Sobers	caught (Jim Parks)	8	0
Joe Solomon	caught (Micky Stewart)	5	0
Frank Worrell	caught (Micky Stewart)	33	0
Deryck Murray	caught (Jim Parks)	2	0
Wes Hall	caught (Jim Parks)	2	0
Charlie Griffith	bowled	1	0
Lance Gibbs	not out	1	0

Fred Trueman 26.00-9-52-5Derek Shackleton 34.00-14-72-4David Allen 21.00-7-50-1Fred Titmus 17.00-3-47-0

England, 212 (9 wkts)

Micky Stewart	caught (Joe Solomon)	17	0
John Edrich	caught (Deryck Murray)	8	0
Ted Dexter	bowled	2	19
Ken Barrington	caught (Deryck Murray)	60	0
Colin Cowdrey	not out	19	0
Brian Close	caught (Deryck Murray)	70	198
Jim Parks	lbw	17	0
Fred Titmus	caught (Easton McMorris)	11	0
Fred Trueman	caught (Deryck Murray)	0	1
David Allen	not out	4	0
Derek Shackleton	run out	4	0

Wes Hall 40.00-9-93-4Charlie Griffith 30.00-7-59-3Garry Sobers 4.00-1-4-0Lance Gibbs 17.00-7-56-1

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