Graham Gooch scored 333 vs India at Lord's

In July, 1990 Graham Gooch scored 333, the highest innings at Lord's, in the 1st Test v India at Lord's. With Len Hutton in the stands, the Test record was within Gooch's grasp when he was bowled by Manoj Prabhakar.

Cricketers have played Tests for England and Australia against each other?

There's only one player who has played both for England against Australia and for Australia against England and it was an awfully long time ago, when the qualification rules were bit more elastic. Billy Midwinter was born in Gloucestershire in 1851, but he was taken to Australia at the age of 9. He played for Australia in the very first Test of all, at Melbourne in March 1877. He was very handy all-rounder but he returned to England later that year, and played for Gloucestershire. When an Australian team toured England in 1878 and he played a few games for them - until in a famous incident he was more or less kidnapped by WG Grace, Gloucestershire's captain, and ‘persuaded’ to turn out for the county. In 1881-82 Billy Midwinter was part of Alfred Shaw's privately raised team which toured Australia, and played in 4 games now considered Tests  before resuming his Australian connections and playing 6 more Tests for them, in 1882-83, 1884 (in England) and 1886-87. Overall Billy Midwinter appeared in 12 Tests, scoring 269 runs at 13.45 and taking 24 wickets at 25.20, with a best return of 5 for 78 in the very first Test of all, at the MCG in 1876-77.

1878 Australian Team and Billy Midwinter sitting in the middle

Billy Midwinter

Wicketkeepers had Scored One-Day International Century for England.

One-day centuries by England wicketkeepers are rare one, when Jos Buttler with his excellent know of 121 at Lord's on May 31 2014 was actually the second man to score one. The only other England keeper to reach three figures in an ODI was Alec Stewart, who did it four times including twice in three days in 2000, against Zimbabwe at Edgbaston and West Indies at Trent Bridge. The other hundreds came against Pakistan at The Oval in 1992, and India in Sharjah in 1997. Jos Buttler century took him only 61 balls, the fastest for England in ODIs, beating the Kevin Pietersen 69 balls hundred against South Africa in East London in Feb 2005.

Joe Root England’s Fourth Youngest Double Centurion

Joe Root is fourth on the list of youngest man to score a double century for England.  The other three batsmen have scored double-centuries for England at a younger age than 23-year-old Joe Root, who made 200 not out against Sri Lanka at Lord's: Len Hutton scored 364 runs v Australia at The Oval in 1938, David Gower scored 200 not out against India at Edgbaston in 1979 and Bill Edrich scored 219 v South Africa in Durban in 1938-39 were all at 22. The only younger batsmen to make Test double-centuries at Lord's were Don Bradman, who was just 21 when he made his superb 254 the innings he rated the best of all his many masterpieces - for Australia against England in 1930, and Graeme Smith, who was 22 when he hit 259 for South Africa in 2003.

Root's maiden double-hundred makes him one of only four Englishmen to have scored a double century by the age of 24.

England middle order batsman Joe Root's maiden double-century was the actually 3^rd instance of a player batting at No. 5 or below and scoring a double-century at Lord's and is the first such instance since 1949. New Zealand's Martin Donnelly was the last man to achieve this feat, during a bore draw game in June 1949. The last time Joe Root batted at Lord's when he played a super match-winning inning of 180 to give England a massive victory, by 347 runs, against Australia in the 2013 Ashes. Joe Root's maiden double-hundred makes him one of only four Englishmen to have scored a double century by the age of 24.Photo Credit: Cricinfo @ AFP

 

Joe Root became the fourth-youngest double-centurion for England, England v Sri Lanka, 1st Investec Test, Lord's, 2nd day, June 13, 2014

Maximum Number of Players to Appears in a Test Series.

England is specialists in this area, when they’ve used in Ashes series at home record 30 players in the 5 match series against Australia in England in 1921, and 29 in six games in 1989. Australia employed 27 players in their home series against England in 1884-85, helped by having to change the entire XI for the second Test after a dispute about payments. West Indies used 27 players in the four Tests of their first home series, against England in 1929-30, including a different captain for each match. Australia used 13 players in 1921, giving the overall record for both sides of 43 men participating in one Test series. 

Oldest man to make his ODI debut for a Test-playing country?

England left-arm spinner Norman Gifford was 44 years old when he made his debut in a one-day tournament in Sharjah in 1985. Norman had been the assistant manager on a couple of overseas tours, and took over as captain for this tournament when a few senior players were rested. Next comes South African Clive Rice, who was 42 years old  when he captained in their first official one-day internationals, in India in November 1991. If you include the non-Test teams then the oldest debutant in one-day internationals and the oldest player overall too is the Barbados-born opener Nolan Clarke, who was 47 when he played for the Netherlands in the 1996 World Cup.

Norman Gifford was 44 when he made his one-day debut for England

Best Bowling Figures and Pair in a Test Match

Surrey and England bowler George Lohmann has got the best bowling figures in a Test in which he bagged a pair with the bat he took 15 wickets for 45 runs - 7 for 38 and 8 for 7 - but also bagged a pair against South Africa in Port Elizabeth... in 1895-96. There are ten other instances of a player taking ten or more wickets in a Test but also bagging a pair, two of them by Muttiah Muralitharan. George Alfred Lohmann Born June 2, 1865, Kensington, London, and died December 1, 1901, Worcester, Cape Province, South Africa (aged 36 years 182 days). George Lohmann has a right to up there with the greatest Test bowlers of all time. Rated by contemporaries as the most difficult opponent, he bowled at little more than medium pace but was able to make the ball seam both ways, and his constant experimentation led to variations in angle, flight and pace.