What's the highest score by a batsman who also made a duck in the same Test?
Also, was the stand between Ben Stokes and Jack Leach the highest to win any match by one wicket?
Ricky Ponting held the record for the highest score and a duck in a Test - 242 and 0 - till October 2015, when Shoaib Malik bettered it by 3 runs, making 245 and 0 against England • Hamish Blair/Getty Images
This record is held by the New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam Parore, who had 92 innings - and 57 Tests - between Test centuries. He scored his first one in his 28th innings, in his 16th match - 100 not out against West Indies in Christchurch in 1994-95 - and had to wait till his 121st innings (73rd Test) to score another - 110 against Australia in Perth in 2001-02. These were Parore's only two Test hundreds.
The current record was set in October 2015, when Shoaib Malik scored 245 and 0 for Pakistan against England in Abu Dhabi. It was previously held by Ricky Ponting, with 242 and 0 against India in Adelaide in 2003-04, in a match Australia lost (Ponting's innings was the highest individual score by someone who ended up on the losing side).
That remarkable partnership of 76, which somehow won the third Ashes Test at Headingley in August, would have been a new Test record - if the mark hadn't been broken earlier in 2019. In Durban in February, Kusal Perera (who made 153 not out) and No. 11 Vishwa Fernando (6 not out) put on 78 as Sri Lanka shocked South Africa to win by one wicket.
South Africa's David Miller reached the milestone of 50 catches in the field in T20Is when he caught Hardik Pandya in Bengaluru on September 22 (he's also taken a catch and a stumping while keeping wicket). He's actually the second fielder to reach 50: Shoaib Malik of Pakistan completed his half-century in his most recent match, against South Africa in Centurion in February 2019.
Not entirely surprisingly, the man who had the most Test innings is the one who was lbw most often: Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed leg before wicket in 63 of his 329 Test innings (33 of which were not out). Next on the list is Shivnarine Chanderpaul, with 55, then the Essex and England pair of Alastair Cook (54) and Graham Gooch (50).
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes