Has Ishant Sharma had the longest wait to get to a Test fifty?
Also, what was the highest score in the fourth innings of a Test by a batsman in a winning cause?
Ishant Sharma is the second-slowest to his maiden Test fifty by innings • Getty Images
Jasprit Bumrah's hat-trick in Kingston last Saturday was indeed the third for India in Tests, following Harbhajan Singh's against Australia in Kolkata in 2000-01, and Irfan Pathan's in the first over of the match against Pakistan in Karachi in 2005-06.
Ishant Sharma's 57 in the first innings in Kingston was his maiden Test half-century, in his 126th innings. Only two others have needed a century of innings to reach 50: Glenn McGrath got there in his 115th knock for Australia (61 against New Zealand in Brisbane in 2004-05), but the record remains with England's Jimmy Anderson, who did not reach fifty until his 131st innings, finishing with 81 against India at Trent Bridge in 2014. His next-highest score, in 208 attempts, is 34.
There have been 56 Test innings that contained two scores of between 90 and 99. Only one of those involved two 99s; for Pakistan against England in Karachi in 1972-73, Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both fell one short of hundred (Dennis Amiss also made 99 for England, making a record three in the match). At the other end of the scale there has also been one innings in which two people were out for 90 - VVS Laxman and Irfan Pathan for India against Pakistan in Faisalabad in 2005-06.
I'm guessing this one was inspired by Ben Stokes' remarkable display in that classic Test at Headingley last week. His 135 not out actually lies 17th on this particular list, although it's the third-best for England after Mark Butcher's 173 not out against Australia at Headingley in 2001, and Jack Brown's 140, also against Australia, in Melbourne in 1894-95.
England's second innings of 362 for 9 at Headingley was 5.4 times as big as their paltry first effort of 67. But it turns out this is some way short of the Test record: at Edgbaston in 1924, South Africa made 390 in their second innings - 13 times as many as the 30 they had scraped together in the first.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes