What's the record for the most sixes in an ODI series?
Also: were Adil Rashid's figures in Grenada the most expensive five-for in ODI history?
Thirty nine of Chris Gayle's 314 sixes in ODIs came in the recent series against England alone • Getty Images
That big-hitting bonanza by Chris Gayle was indeed a record for any one-day tournament, easily beating 26, in six matches in the 2014-15 World Cup… by Chris Gayle. Next with 23 - the previous best for a bilateral one-day series - comes Rohit Sharma, in six matches against Australia at home in 2013-14. AB de Villiers crashed 21 sixes in eight games in the 2014-15 World Cup, and 20 in the five-match series in India in 2015-16. Shane Watson hit 20 in a three-match rubber in Bangladesh in 2011.
There isn't a preset table for this at the moment, but you can work it out using Statsguru - which I have just done, to save you a job! The leading six-hitter in women's one-day internationals is Deandra Dottin of West Indies, with 74; Lizelle Lee of South Africa comes next with 63, while New Zealand's Sophie Devine has 52. Top of the list of most fours in women's one-day internationals is currently Mithali Raj of India, with 709. She recently overhauled England's Charlotte Edwards (686), with Karen Rolton of Australia quite a way behind in third place, with 529.
In the fourth one-day international in Grenada last week, Shimron Hetmyer hit his first ball (from Mark Wood) for six, but was caught on the boundary next ball. The ESPNcricinfo database throws up eight previous instances of this in ODIs - including one by Hetmyer's captain, Jason Holder, against Zimbabwe in Harare last March.
Adil Rashid's 5 for 85 in St George's last week was comfortably the most expensive five-for in a one-day international. The previous mark was 5 for 73, by the Scottish seamer Gordon Goudie, against Australia in Edinburgh in 2009. Next comes Steven Finn's 5 for 71 - which included a hat-trick - for England against Australia in Melbourne during the 2014-15 World Cup.
Rather surprisingly perhaps, there have been 15 higher third-innings totals by teams who ended up losing a Test. The highest (and the only one over 500) was India's 510 against England at Headingley in 1967, when their captain, the Nawab of Pataudi, made a superb 148. In second place comes England's 490 for 8 declared - also at Headingley - against West Indies in 2017, when Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai Hope made light of an imposing target.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes