THE WEEK IN NUMBERS: Holder's double hundred, Patterson's catches and Anderson's five-wicket-haul

It's a numbers game! Here The Cricketer takes a look back at some of the stats to come out of the world of cricket this week...

8, 202*, 295

These were the key numbers after West Indies batsmen Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich had finished with the England bowling attack on the third day of the first Test.

Holder's eight sixes were the most by a Windies player against England in a Test, and one short of equalling the Windies record overall.

His 202* was not only his highest-score in Test cricket, but the highest by a West Indies player batting at No.8. It was also only the third time a No.8 had made a double-century.

The 295 that Dowrich and Holder put on was the second-highest for the seventh-wicket by the West Indies, and the third-highest in the history of Test cricket.

^{Jason Holder was only the third No.8 to go past 200}

18, 0

A remarkable contrast, 18 wickets fell on the second day of the second day of the aforementioned Test, and none fell on the third day.

This set the record for the most wickets to fall on a single day of a Test match, which also had a day in which no wickets fell.

The previous record was set during a match between India and Bangladesh in 2007. In that instance, no wickets fell on the first day, while 15 wickets fell on the third day.

182

This is the number of balls that England's calamitous first innings effort against the Windies lasted, as they were bowled out for just 77.

By the 10th over they had only lost the one wicket of Keaton Jennings, but his opening partner Burns was dismissed soon after in the 12th over.

This is fewer than the number of balls that could potentially be bowled during a full match of Hundred cricket, so hopefully ECB chief executive Tom Harrison didn't get too bored.

4

Aussie debutant Kurtis Patterson took four catches off the bowling of Pat Cummins as he ripped through Sri Lanka during the first Test between the two sides at Brisbane.

Cummins took career-best figures of 6-23, four of which were caught by Patterson.

This tied the record for most catches by a debutant off one bowler. The other three players to have achieved the feat are Rolph Grant, Yajurvindra Singh, Nick Knight (yes, that one).

Surely though, none can have been quite as good as this grab from Patterson.

SCREAMER! An instant classic from Kurtis Patterson!#AUSvSL | @Bet365_aus pic.twitter.com/OQK9KHKIQl

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 26, 2019

777

Though the Sydney Sixers were unable to make it three in a row after they were beaten by the Brisbane Heat in the Women's Big Bash final, their captain Ellyse Perry has set new heights.

She finished the fourth edition of the tournament with 777 runs in 16 innings at an average of 86.33.

Not only was this just under 300 runs more than Beth Mooney (the next-highest to have played 16 matches), but it was also the first time someone had got past 700 runs, not to mention 600.

To make it even more impressive, she scored two centuries during the tournament - the first time anyone had ever managed more than one during a single season.

^{Ellyse Perry finished the WBBL with almost 300 more runs than any other player}

15

A batsman from Saudi Arabia smashed the third-fastest 50 in the history of T20I cricket when he got past the milestone in just 15 balls.

Faisal Khan went to score 83 off 28 as Saudi Arabia chased down Kuwait's total of 136 during their ACC Western Region match.

He sits behind India's Yuvraj Singh and New Zealand's Colin Munro. Yuvraj took only 12 balls to make his 50 against England back in 2007, while Munro got there in just 14 balls against Sri Lanka in 2016.

27

With the wicket of Alzarri Joseph during the second day of the first Test between England and West Indies, Anderson had his fifth scalp of the innings.

This was his 27th five-wicket-haul in Test cricket, which took him level with Sir Ian Botham for the most by an English player in Tests.

It did mean, however, that he now has more five-wicket-hauls in Tests than any other player still playing in the format. Dale Steyn sits behind him with 26.

The fast bowler with the most in Test cricket is New Zealand's Sir Richard Hadlee, who has 36.