Andy Zaltzman

Or: Four Stats I Have Dug Up and Polished Before Deciding it Was Bedtime and They Would Have to Do For the Stats of the Year

The numbers in Nagpur, and South Africa's overall performance in this tour of India, will do your head in

Sobers excelled, Botham struggled in a slot that nobody wants for too long

And do you know what's the season with most Test 250s?

You wouldn't know from these stats. Also: an unsuccessful Pakistan XI younger than Misbah

Test batting's most intriguing position has served as a home to all manner of batsmen, including the greatest of them all

How England showed immense mental and physical fortitude in Abu Dhabi, first in not losing, then in coming within a few minutes and boundaries of winning

Until Tino Best and other No. 11s decided that enough was enough

Resolve these annoying problems and welcome World Peace

Guess who is the world's second-best opening bowler in Tests this decade

No. 7 used to be reserved for batsmen and allrounders. Then along came the wicketkeepers

Why those who say the somnolent pace of (some of) the recent Test proves women's cricket is not worth watching are wrong

Going into the fourth Test, it's pretty clear where the urn's headed

Why does the position seemingly inspire a relative lack of performance in many - and the opposite in a few?

There's plenty of hope for England, because old scorecards never lie

A handy, brief shortlist of the cricketers who might conceivably have an impact on the series

Why batting at No. 9 offers some of the greatest potential for heroism

Come back and play a one-off Test-ODI-T20 simultaneous hybrid megamatch

Plus: spry old debutants, and a Headingley duds XI

A new series on the great batting positions of Test cricket, beginning with the midriff of the XI