A stats preview of the third Test between England and Pakistan at Headingley

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

A stats preview of the second Test between England and Pakistan at Old Trafford

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

Bradshaw bowled 40 overs in the second innings and 25 of them on the trot on the fourth day, beginning before lunch and ending after tea

Edwards had a short-leg and leg-slip in place and angled the ball into Sehwag's ribs - a form of bodyline - and had Sehwag hopping all over the place in extreme discomfort

The Indian bowlers allowed Gayle to free his arms by bowling too wide or too full, and because of their inexperience they couldn't find an alternative strategy to control him

The West Indians didn't blow India away with devastating pace, nor did they deceive them with guile and swing. Instead, they kept plugging away in the channel outside off stump and India kept edging at regular intervals

Four batsmen scored fifties in the fifth ODI at Trinidad, and the factor that won the game for West Indies was that they had three of them, whereas India had only Virender Sehwag

Lara scored 53 runs off 63 balls against spin and only 16 runs off 37 balls against the fast bowlers. At every opportunity, Lara used his feet to smother the spin and bounce

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

From a batting point of view, West Indies and India were uncannily similar. Both teams lost early wickets; both had fifth wicket partnerships of over fifty; both teams had top-scorers in the nineties

There were two lead stars in the first one-day international between India and West Indies and once their roles ended the plots unravelled fast