Also: best figures and a pair, most no-balls in a Test, keeper's catches, and when WG graced Trent Bridge

People who have made unexpected appearances in the cricket bible

Also: 40-year-old Indian Test players, Victor Eberle's costly drop, dismissed by the same bowler, and twice dismissed in a hat-trick

Looking on as the world's greatest legspinner strutted his stuff was quite the education for a lesser-accomplished member of the breed

Also: cheapest four-fors, Queenstown captains, and Zimbabwe's Test wins

Some Test series that didn't end up quite as they were expected to

Also: Zimbabweans with two hundreds in a Test, longest wait between Test and one-day debuts, most wickets in the IPL, and Bradman's stats

Also: most catches in a calendar year, longest wait for maiden Test wicket, most runs without being dismissed, and more on the worst bowling averages

Cricketers who have - by accident or design - led to changes in the Laws

Also: most balls taken to score a run, first Test on a Sunday, innings with no double figures, and the worst bowling averages

Nearly forty years before Sehwag almost blazed to a double-century in a day, an English batsman set the template

Also: lowest total in an innings win, most first-class runs in a season, whitewashing Australia, and the first umpire to stand in all ten countries

England's great escape in Auckland was the 21st time a Test ended with a team nine wickets down in the fourth innings. Here are 11 such cliffhangers

Also: old Indian debutants, fastest to 100 ODI wickets, most runs against Australia, and a quiz question

Also: Ceylonese players, starting with sixes, highest partnerships in a Test, and the longest streaks of not-outs

Australia recently dropped four players for failing to fill in a report. Here are more strange reasons for missing a Test or leaving a tour

Hamish Rutherford's memorable debut takes the mind back to his father's, and those from other cricketing dynasties in New Zealand

Steven Lynch says that New Zealand are rapidly becoming a force in Test cricket

Also: most wickets after 14 Tests, fastest to 1000 runs, biggest innings lead in defeat, and Lock and Laker's records

Also: most economical figures in ODIs and T20s, stumped in the first over of a Test, 100 wickets at a venue, and longest wait to complete a hat-trick