Does Zak Crawley have the highest individual Test score at more than a run a ball?
And does Tammy Beaumont have the highest individual Test score in a losing cause?
That exciting innings by Zak Crawley in the fourth Test at Old Trafford was the highest score in an Ashes Test at a strike rate of over 100, beating the previous record of 152 by Adam Gilchrist (143 balls) at Edgbaston in 2001, and Travis Head (148) in Brisbane in 2021-22. The noted Australian statistician Charles Davis, who has re-scored many early Tests from original sources, estimates that Joe Darling made 160 from 160 balls for Australia vs England in Sydney in 1897-98.
You're right that ten of England's players in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford had more than 1000 runs each when the match started (the odd one out was Mark Wood, with 681). That turns out to be the most by any national side in a Test match, equalled only by the multinational World XI against Australia in the one-off Super Series Test in Sydney late in 2005 (Steve Harmison was the outlier that time).
Jonny Bairstow was the seventh player to finish with a score of 99 not out in a Test, during the fourth Ashes match at Old Trafford. Six of them were left high and dry when the last man was dismissed - but at Edgbaston in 1999 Alex Tudor had 95 when he hit the four that sealed England's win over New Zealand.
The England opener Tammy Beaumont's 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge last month was easily the highest score in a losing cause in a women's Test, surpassing Claire Taylor's 137 for England vs Australia at Headingley in 2001.
Making his Test debut in the first Test of the current series in front of his home crowd in Dominica, left-hander Alick Athanaze top-scored with 47 out of 150 in West Indies' first innings, and 28 out of 130 in the second.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes