The sparsest and the busiest careers

Nov 18, 2009: Players who've played few Tests over a long career, and those who've played a sizeable number in a short span of time

Sixes for everyone, and strike-rates over 100

Nov 11, 2009: Innings in which every batsman hit it out of the park and scored at a run a ball or better

They don't think it's all over

Nov 4, 2009: Lower-order partnerships that formed the highest percentage of the target during a chase

The slowest to 1000 runs

Oct 28, 2009: Players who took the longest to reach 50, 100, 500 and 1000 career runs in Tests and ODIs

Masakadza sets a new record

Oct 21, 2009: Players who scored the most runs and took the most wickets in a bilateral series

Fifty-three ODIs without a fifty or a three-for

Oct 14, 2009: Players who never scored a half-century, nor took three wickets in an innings, during their whole careers

Australia's fortress, and New Zealand's long wait

Oct 7, 2009: The longest winning and losing streaks, at home and abroad

The right men for large run-chases

Sep 30, 2009: Batsmen and bowlers who do better when the task is bigger

Big hundreds without big partnerships

Sep 23, 2009: Matches in which two batsmen made large scores in the same innings but weren't at the crease at the same time, not even for one ball

One batsman, many partners

Sep 16, 2009: Openers who've had the most batting partners, and those with the fewest

Can Vettori challenge Hadlee's record?

Sep 9, 2009: The list of progressive record wicket-takers for each country in Tests

Late limited-over centurions

Sep 2, 2009: Longest gaps between a maiden Test hundred and a maiden ODI hundred, and vice versa

When the numbers didn't add up

Aug 26, 2009: Instances when teams with the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers in a series ended up on the wrong side of the scoreline

Coventry's 194, and other unexpected innings

Aug 19, 2009: Batsmen with the lowest averages before scoring a fifty and a century in ODIs and Tests

Sixteen for six, and other horror stories

Aug 12, 2009: The poorest performances by the top, middle and lower orders in Tests

From Charles Bannerman to Ricky Ponting

Aug 5, 2009: The leading run-scorers for each Test-playing country down the years

The 100th anything

Jul 14, 2009: To commemorate Sophia Gardens becoming the 100th Test venue, we've looked at other 100ths in this week's column - the 100th match, 100th century, 100th duck, 100th five-for, and the like, across all formats

Winning despite dreadful batting performances

Jul 8, 2009: In this week's column we've looked at games - Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 internationals - which teams have won despite having the lowest high score

When being too old, or young, didn't matter - Part 2

Jul 1, 2009: The oldest, and youngest, players top-scoring or taking most wickets in an ODI series

When less is more in Twenty20

Jun 24, 2009: Teams winning despite hitting fewer boundaries, scoring slower, and losing more wickets than the opposition

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