Cricketers who weren't afraid of hooking or cutting - in a boxing ring

He may have played just four Tests but Robin Jackman was an ever-present stalwart for his county through the 1970s

Also: pairs on debut, players with most team-mates, and most overs bowled in a day in Tests

Also: highest percentage of overs bowled in a Test, scoring and conceding a hundred on debut, batsmen who were bowled the most, and the Maritzburg Mamba

Monty Panesar's performance in Mumbai inspired us to look at England's rich history of excellent (if often eccentric) left-arm spinners

Reggie Duff was the first No. 10 batsman to score a century on Test debut, but the rest of his career and his life didn't quite match that glittering start

Also: back-to-back doubles, most runs between dismissals, and participating in all ten dismissals

Also: the lowest average among five-time centurions, KP's run record, most maiden overs bowled, and most Tests without a wicket

Memorable one-man performances in Tests and first-class matches

Also: XIs of only right-handers, best bowling on captaincy debut, most innings without being stumped, and the Peshawar Rickshaw

And nine other memorable individual performances in Tests between England and India

Also: big leads in defeats, highest score in Sri Lanka, Bradman's nemesis, and Ponting's fast-bowling cousin

Characters from books, comics and television who played cricket

Also: highest scores on debut against India, most ducks inflicted, the highest T20 total, and the fastest Indian to 50 Test wickets

Cricketers who played all five Tests of a series, and no more

Also: rugby siblings, a First World War victim, longest gaps between first-class and Test debuts, and a foreword written by a dog

Players who defined a series by the way they began it

Also: 99 not out in T20s, Bradman's run-outs, captains with pairs, and an offie nicknamed Roo

Some entertainingly hopeless batsmen

Also: Tennyson's Test-playing relation, India-Pakistan World Cup stats, and playing without bails and stumps