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Now things get a little more difficult: three other Australian grounds have staged two Tests each. The Exhibition Ground in Brisbane staged an Ashes Test in 1928-29 - Don Bradman's debut -
and another in 1930-31, before being superseded by the Gabba. And in 2003 and 2004 there was a brief experiment with "Top End Tests", in the tropical north of Australia, which led to two
matches being played at the Marrara Oval in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, and two at Cazaly's Stadium in Cairns, in north Queensland.
There should be another addition to the list next year, as the Manuka Oval in Canberra has been allocated a Test against Sri Lanka. It will be the first Test in Australia's capital city. The
ground has staged nine one-day internationals, including a 2015 World Cup match in which Chris Gayle thrashed 215 against Zimbabwe.
In all, there have been 43 cases of two batsmen sharing a pair of century stands in the same Test, most recently 246 and 144 by Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai Hope for West Indies against
England at Headingley in 2017. Of those, the only other one to include two partnerships of 150 or more occurred in Johannesburg in 1938-39, when Paul Gibb and Eddie Paynter put on 184 and
168 for England's second wicket against South Africa. Gibb, who was making his debut, scored 93 and 106.
You're right to say that Mahela Jayawardene holds the record for Tests: in fact he's first and second on that particular list, with 2921 at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo, and 2382 in
Galle.
But only two West Indians have done better than Hope: Desmond Haynes scored 346 ODI runs between dismissals in April 1985, while Brian Lara made 255 in June 2003. As he was not out in his
most recent innings, Hope's sequence is still continuing, so if he scores two runs in his next innings - probably against England early next year in the Caribbean - then he will pass Lara
and have only Haynes to chase.
A fine opener who averaged over 46, Morris didn't get much chance to show off his left-arm wristspinners in Tests. He took only two wickets - but one of them did come earlier in that 1953
series, in the third match at Old Trafford. Amusingly, it was his old tormentor (and close friend) Alec Bedser, who got Morris out no fewer than 18 times in Tests, a record at the time,
since surpassed only by Glenn McGrath, who dismissed Mike Atherton on 19 occasions.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes