Does Yashasvi Jaiswal now hold the record for most sixes in a Test series?
And has anyone dismissed a centurion with their first ball as Ben Stokes did in Dharamsala?
The Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal collected 26 sixes in the just-concluded series against England, which is easily a record. The previous-best was 19, by his opening partner Rohit Sharma, in only three matches against South Africa in India in 2019-20.
It turns out this is rather more common then I realised: there have now been 45 occasions when one player had more caps going into a Test than the rest of his team-mates put together. Quite a few of these date from early in the various countries' Test histories. The most recent instance is a good example: in Ireland's inaugural Test, against Pakistan in Malahide in May 2018, ten of their side were making their debuts, but fast bowler Boyd Rankin had one cap, for England in Sydney in 2013-14.
I have to repeat the line about the ESPNcricinfo database lacking full ball-by-ball details from some Test matches, but it will be hard to beat the record of England's Alastair Cook, who was stumped (by MS Dhoni off R Ashwin) from the fifth ball of England's second innings as they chased a small total to win in Kolkata in 2012-13.
You're right that both Jonny Bairstow of England and India's R Ashwin clocked up heir 100th Test appearances in the fifth Test in Dharamsala. Remarkably, there was another instance the following day in Christchurch, when the New Zealand pair of Tim Southee and Kane Williamson also reached 100, becoming the 79th and 80th players to do so.
The England captain Ben Stokes hadn't bowled in the series against India before he put himself on for the 62nd over of the first innings in the fifth Test in Dharamsala. His first delivery shivered the timbers of his opposite number, Rohit Sharma, who was bowled for 103, leading ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball commentator to wonder who wrote Stokes' scripts.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes