Which is the slowest Test of all?
And how many batsmen have been run out in the 90s on debut?

Gordon Greenidge was run out for 93 on debut • Adrian Murrell/Getty Images
Aiden Markram's misfortune against Bangladesh in Potchefstroom last week was only the third time a debutant had been run out in the nineties in a Test. The first was Pakistan's Abdul Kadir (a wicketkeeper, not the later legspinner with a similar name), who had reached 95 when he was run out against Australia in Karachi in 1964-65. That brought to an end a stand of 249 with Billy Ibadulla (who went on to 166), still the highest opening partnership by two debutants in a Test. The other nearly man was Gordon Greenidge, who was run out by India's Sunil Gavaskar for 93 on debut for West Indies in Bangalore in 1974-75. Greenidge made up for it with 107 in the second innings - and 18 more centuries afterwards.
Rather surprisingly perhaps, that match in Bombay in 1969-70 comes in only 50th on this particular list. The slowest Test of all was played on a pitch then recently relaid, in Port Elizabeth in 1956-57, when South Africa (164 and 134) beat England (110 and 130) in a match that produced only 538 runs from 287.5 eight-ball overs. That's a rate of just 1.40 runs per six balls, and it's the only Test in which the overall scoring was below 1.5.
Nottinghamshire beat Surrey to win the Royal London Cup final at Lord's in July, then overcame Warwickshire in the T20 Blast final at Edgbaston in September to complete this domestic double.
The top two entries on this particular list come from a run-soaked six-match series in India in 2013-14 - Rohit Sharma scored 491 runs for the home side, and George Bailey 478 for Australia. They broke the previous record of 467, set by Zimbabwe's Hamilton Masakadza in five matches against Kenya in 2009-10. Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen, Kumar Sangakkara and Salman Butt have also scored more than 450 runs in a bilateral one-day series.
There have been only six scores of 99 not out in Test matches so far, the first of them by England's Geoff Boycott against Australia in Perth in 1979-80. Only one of the batsmen concerned never managed to reach three figures in a Test: Alex Tudor, who went in as a nightwatchman against New Zealand at Edgbaston in 1999, and was still there when England won the match next day.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes