Test cricketers who moved from the field to the press box

Also: highest score in a follow-on, dismissing all 11 batsmen, and the best figures for New Zealand

Popular and much-loved cricketers who played little international cricket

Also: most Test wickets at a foreign ground, title followed by relegation, huge margins of victory, and big World Cup chases

Not all cricketers are super-stylish. Sometimes they defy the coaching book, but get the job done

Also: lower-order T20 fifties, most ODI half-centuries without getting hundreds, and two tons on debut and two on farewell

Famous cricketing mothers (and others who ought to be)

Also: three stumpings in an ODI, winning by an innings after scoring 153, and more

Players who ended their international careers in style

Also: two hundreds and two five-fors in the same match, superb seasons without centuries, and most team runs during a player's innings

Cricket's statistics aren't all 99.94s. Sometimes the numbers are satisfyingly round

Also: most wickets at Lord's, a captain's knock from No. 8, playing three U-19 World Cups, and most wickets in a three-Test series

Cricketing twins, some who confused the opposition, others who faced off against each other

Also: most Tests at a ground, nervous nineties at Lord's, 0 for 1 twice, and a cricketer nicknamed Badger

Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the Lord's Test for textual impropriety. Here are some other instances of players who missed matches for unlikely reasons

Also: best figures in final Tests, winning without taking 20 wickets, and the batsman nicknamed Croucher

Some names that go well together on a scorecard, conjuring up visions of food, music or even spy movies

Also: most runs in a series without a century, most wickets in a career without a five-for, and New Zealand's Caribbean record

Players who had a solitary day in the sun in otherwise unremarkable careers

Also: five wickets before the first day's lunch, two hat-tricks in 90 minutes, T20 records, and those who weren't Wisden Cricketers of the Year