How many players have scored a hundred in their first T20I?
And who were the first to take 100 wickets in T20Is, ODIs and Tests?
Ricky Ponting made 98 not out in the first men's T20I, in 2005 • Dean Treml/Getty Images
Until very recently the record for the highest score on T20 international debut dated from the very first such match: Ricky Ponting made 98 not out for Australia against New Zealand in the first one, in Auckland in February 2005. But in the space of three days this August, two men scored hundreds in their first T20 internationals: first, Ravinderpal Singh scored 101 for Canada against the Cayman Islands in Bermuda on August 18, then two days later Jean-Pierre Kotze hit an unbeaten 101 - from 43 balls, with nine sixes - for Namibia against Botswana in Windhoek.
The Hampshire fast bowler Kyle Abbott's remarkable performance against Somerset in Southampton last week - he followed 9 for 40 with 8 for 46 - put him high on the list of the best match figures in first-class cricket.
That astonishing feat by 43-year-old Darren Stevens in Kent's 433-run demolition of Yorkshire at Headingley last week put him in very rarefied company indeed. Stevens scored 237 - he was the oldest to score a Championship double-century since Walter Keeton of Nottinghamshire in 1949 - then, after opening the bowling in Yorkshire's second innings, took 5 for 20. The only other 40-year-old to achieve this double in any first-class match was none other than WG Grace, who was 46 when he took 5 for 87 and then scored 288 for Gloucestershire against Somerset in Bristol in 1895.
You're right that Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga recently took his 100th wicket in T20 internationals: as this list shows, he nipped past Shahid Afridi, who had 98.
The first Indian bowler to achieve this rare feat was the legspinner Subhash "Fergie" Gupte, with 10 for 78 for Bombay Cricket Association against a combined XI, made up of touring players from Pakistan, at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay in December 1954.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes