When cricketers (other than Bradman) briefly tried on the cloak of invincibility

Highest totals without centuries, most runs in the final 10 innings, big names who weren't Wisden cricketers, and more

Kings, nawabs and other royals who played cricket

Australian centuries on debut, left-hand stands, fastest to 1000 one-day runs, and when Ponting didn't bat at No. 3

Ten-wicket double-hundreds, winning after conceding big, Bradman's centuries, and Lawry's leg-befores

Rahul Dravid made a fifty in his final ODI last week. We take a look at players who lit up their final matches

Also: playing Tests without knowing it, not playing Tests after taking 2000 first-class wickets, myths about Miandad, and the opener who was never dismissed

From WG to Amla: cricketers (and a statistician) with impressive beards

Also: captaining against your old team, highest series averages without centuries, Zimbabweans who've carried the bat, and cricketers born in Germany

Should Nathan Lyon and Shaminda Eranga be worried that most of the bowlers who took wickets with their first ball in Tests didn't go on to perform many more great deeds?

Also: most balls faced in an innings, highest scores of 199, longest gaps between Tests, and two-country men in ODIs

After Rahul Dravid carried his bat at The Oval and then went straight back in to start the follow-on, we look at some other single-handed batting efforts

Also: openers with king pairs, winning big after conceding a first-innings lead, impressive ODI starts, and longest survivors after Test debuts

RP Singh, who hadn't played international cricket for two years, was called up to India's Test side in England last week. We look at some other unlikely tour reinforcements over the years

Also: the oldest fast bowler, the youngest in the 400 club, hundreds in first and last Tests, and the story of Vic Stollmeyer

As Sachin Tendulkar's 100th international hundred keeps us on tenterhooks, we look back at some other landmarks that were delayed a while

Also: pairs of half-centuries and five-fors, dismissed off the first ball of either innings, and hypothetical career stats for Brian Close

After the Ian Bell run-out controversy at Trent Bridge, here's a look back at some other famous run-outs (and a couple of close-run things)

Also: scoring 99 and a duck, the quickest to 100 ODI wickets, fewest bowlers in a win, and the youngest and oldest triple-centurions

Also: when all four openers were lefties and when all four innings were played on the same day