As Brook walked off the field at the Hagley Oval he did so with a career average of 60.05 – fractionally less than Herbert Sutcliffe’s national record of 60.73. Woakes did not last long but ...

Herbert Sutcliffe and Sir Everton Weekes both reached 1,000 Test runs in just 12 innings, placing them among the fastest in Test cricket history. The 25-year-old middle-order dynamo continues to ...

The two of them are now third-equal fastest in Test history, with only Herbert Sutcliffe and Everton Weekes having achieved the feat in fewer innings (both 12). He got there in style too ...

Herbert Sutcliffe?s tally of 734 runs in the series was the highest by any player in a series then. In the second Test at the MCG, he became the third player to hit hundreds in each innings of a Test.

His 18 th double ton also helped him climb to the fourth spot in the list of most double centuries in first-class cricket leaving behind former England cricketers Herbert Sutcliffe and Mark ...