How often have there been no debutants in Tests in an England summer?
And what's the lowest fourth-innings total by a team that won a Test with nine wickets down?
No debutants turned out for England, Pakistan or West Indies this summer • Gareth Copley/Getty Images
That's a good spot, because actually this is the first English summer ever that has had Test cricket but no new caps at all. There have been two previous Test summers with no debutants for England - 1953 and 2011 - but both of those featured new players from the visiting teams. In 1953, Australia blooded Alan Davidson and legspinner Jack Hill in the first Test, at Trent Bridge, and batsman Jim de Courcy in the third, at Old Trafford. In 2011, Sri Lanka introduced Thisara Perera in the first Test of the season, in Cardiff, and Lahiru Thirimanne in the third, in Southampton.
There have now been 14 Tests that ended in one-wicket victories for the side batting last. The lowest total involved, by quite a distance, is 104 for 9 - by New Zealand against West Indies in Dunedin in 1979-80. Next is England's 173 for 9 against South Africa in Cape Town in 1922-23.
You're right about the Three Ws: Everton Weekes reached double figures in his first 14 Test innings (going on to hundreds in five of them) before falling for 1 in his 15th, against England at Old Trafford in 1950, while Frank Worrell also had 14 before he fell for 6 in Adelaide in 1951-52. Clyde Walcott, however, was out for 8 in his first Test innings, against England in Bridgetown in 1947-48.
Sanath Jayasuriya scored 2514 runs in one-day internationals at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, which remained a record for a single ground from 2009 until January 2018, when Tamim Iqbal passed it: he now has 2619 runs at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
I've included this one as it's the birth anniversary of Don Bradman in a couple of days' time. Test cricket's greatest batsman did feature in 11 Test series in all - eight against England - and made a century in every one of them, as this list shows. In nine of his series, the Don scored two or more hundreds - the only ones in which he managed just one apiece were the Ashes of 1928-29 (his first series, aged 21), and the Bodyline tour of 1932-33, when he missed one of the matches.
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