Most balls faced in an innings, players named after towns, 99 and measles, and Bradman's triples

Virender Sehwag's 219 took the number of double-centuries in men's List A cricket to a neat 11. Here they are in detail

Players who lost most Tests, captains with most ODIs, players born on the Isle of Wight, and a septuagenarian first-class debutant

Players from West Indies who played only a Test each, for various reasons, including the outbreak of war

Also, highest T20 chases, fastest to 3000 ODI runs, and most one-day hundreds without sixes

People (including a dictator) who have lent their names to cricket

Also, winning after being dismissed for under 100, youngest to 6000 runs, and players named Valentine

Legendary matches that would have been worth watching live

Also, identical scores, fastest to 100 wickets, two farewell hundreds and 20 wickets in a day

Players who had very brief cricket careers (or virtually none at all)

Also, records for neutral venues, fastest hundreds and most expensive T20 overs

Unusual (and often sub-zero) venues where people endeavoured to play cricket

And an away losses record that India will hope not to equal

Cricketers who announced their retirements during series

Also: Most runs at an overseas Test ground, most run-outs, pre-war hit-wickets, and carrying the bat in the fourth innings

When batsmen made getting out for zero memorable

Also: Clarke's records, feasting on hundreds while Tendulkar starves, five-fors to begin with

Michael Clarke's triple-hundred at the SCG inspired our selection of these captains' knocks

Also: half-centuries galore, a century of stumpings, Shakib's record, and most pairs in Tests

Stuart MacGill's comeback to big cricket has started well, but some people weren't so lucky