The List

Hussey captained Australia for the first time against West Indies at the Kinrara Oval after just 40 international appearances and celebrated the occasion with a hundred. This week, we focus on the best performances in a first match as captain

This week we look at best performances in the final series of a career

In the 1990s several ice-cool finishers, ruthless hitters, and death-bowling experts - read Michael Bevan, Ricardo Powell and Ian Harvey among others - who carved a niche for themselves in one-day cricket but couldn't cement their place in the Test sides

In the recent Test series against South Africa, Muttiah Muralitharan added another bauble to his treasury. His 22 wickets that spurred Sri Lanka to a 2-0 win were the most for a bowler in a two-Test series

With one innings left, Mohammad Yousuf had a shot at surpassing Zaheer Abbas's Pakistan record for most runs in a series but because of the forfeiture on the fourth day his tally remained 631, 19 short of Abbas

This week, we look at the biggest differences between home and away averages for bowlers

Batsmen with the biggest differences between home and away averages and vice versa

This Sunday, August 6, will see a first in the history of cricket: five full international matches will be played on the same day

The great one-man bowling shows

Which players have won the Man-of-the-Match award the most times? Who wins it the most regularly? And who has never won the award?

Since 2000, only on six occasions has a team defended a target of 175 or below and only Zimbabwe and West Indies have been unable to chase targets below 150. This week, we look at the lowest totals that have been successfully defended in ODIs

This week, we look at matches where a batsman outperformed his team-mates, and the opposition too, by a country mile

The List looks at bowlers with the most expensive figures in ODIs and Tests

We look at batsmen with the highest percentage of hundreds in wins and losses

The List features bowlers and their five-wicket hauls in matches won and lost

The List looks at instances where the tail out-performed the top order with the bat

We look at matches when a young team beat a far more experienced opposition

This week's column looks at the highest and lowest rates of scoring in Tests and one-day internationals

This week we look at how Asian players have fared in England

Last week's column was about prolific first-class batsmen who never made it in Test cricket, this week it's the bowlers' turn