Wednesday 28 September 2016 13:08, UK
What a summer of cricket it has been - Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange runs through the record-breakers, the hat-trick takers and the standout stars of the summer...
As the season draws to a close, here are my stats of the summer - some of the more slightly off-the-wall statistics that made me most excited over the course of the six months.
Here's a look at a few which may have passed you by:
14 - deliveries it took for Sri Lanka's Dasun Shanaka to take his first three Test wickets at Headingley, surpassing Phil Edmonds' 15 deliveries for England against Australia at the same ground in 1975.
3 - defeats England have suffered in 33 home Tests starting in May. England have won 24, drawn six and lost just three. Those defeats were to Australia in 1921 (May 28 start), Pakistan in 2001 (May 31 start) and New Zealand in 2015 (May 29 start). England are unbeaten in 25 home Tests to have started on or before May 27.
870 - runs scored when Nottinghamshire played Northamptonshire in the Royal London One-Day Cup at Trent Bridge, a record for one-day cricket in England, and just two runs short of the world record set in the 2006 ODI between South Africa and Australia at Johannesburg.
123 - deliveries it took Glamorgan's Aneurin Donald to reach his double century against Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay, equalling the world record set by Ravi Shastri for Bombay against Baroda in 1985.
256 - Alex Hales and Jason Roy's unbeaten first-wicket partnership for England against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston is the highest ever by a side winning in an ODI by ten wickets.
14 March 1991 - the date of birth for Jake Ball and James Vince, who both played for England against Pakistan at Lord's. The last time England fielded two players born on the same day was when Jack Crapp and Jack Young (born on 14 October 1912) played against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1949.
42 - the age of Misbah-ul-Haq when scoring a Test century at Lord's, making him the oldest player to score a Test ton since Patsy Hendren in 1934.
18 - the age of Surrey's Sam Curran when he became the youngest player ever to score a fifty and take a seven-wicket haul in the same County Championship match - against Durham in September - beating Charlie Townsend's record from 1895.
1st - grandfather, father and son combination to all score first-class double-centuries when Brett D'Oliveira scored an unbeaten 202 for Worcestershire against Glamorgan at Cardiff, following in the footsteps of dad, Damian, and grandad, Basil.
1912 - the last time England played successive Tests at Lord's. This summer was the first time that England have played consecutive home Tests in the same summer at the same venue since 1912, when they did it at both Lord's and The Oval.
18 - the number of attempts it took for Alex Hales and Alastair Cook to finally achieve a 100-run partnership in Tests, at Edgbaston against Pakistan. The worst for England were Cook and Andrew Strauss, who achieved an opening partnership of 100 on their 28th attempt.
31 - David Masters - who retired at the end of the season - managed to take 31 first-class hauls of five or more wickets, without ever taking ten wickets in a match. In doing so, he nudged past Paul Allott's record of 30 such performances.
5th - Haseeb Hameed became the fifth-youngest player to score 1,000 runs in a County Championship season, after Arthur Fagg, Keith Fletcher, Denis Compton and Sachin Tendulkar.
500th - catch taken by Marcus Trescothick this year. He is the fifth-fastest of the 43 fielders to reach that milestone in terms of matches, and by season's end had increased his tally to 513.
65 - number of wickets taken by the leading English-qualified bowlers in the County Championship, who both share the same surname. Jack Leach of Somerset and Joe Leach of Worcestershire both took 65 wickets in fifteen matches.
3 - Chris Rogers became just the third player to score twin centuries in his final first-class match, after William Lambert (Sussex v Epsom in 1817) and Len Baichan (Berbice v Demerara in 1983), following his retirement from Test cricket in 2015, which matched his career run aggregate (2015).
13 - wickets taken by Northamptonshire's Rob Keogh in victory over Glamorgan, having quietly taken just 36 in 44 first-class matches before then.
1st - And finally, Toby Roland-Jones became the first player to win the County Championship with a hat-trick.
