Is Sonal Dinosha the only batsman to score two tons in the Test followed by his team? – Ask Stephen

Australia won the second Test against Bangladesh despite scoring only 210 runs. Was this the lowest total leading to an innings win? asked Mark De Kretser from Australia, among others

Australia 210 in Second Test against Bangladesh in Mackay – first played at the Great Barrier Reef Arena – was actually the fourth lowest to be enough for an innings victory in the Test. The smallest he ever was Australia 153 in Melbourne In 1932, when South Africa were twice bowled out on rain-affected pitches for 36 and 45, the 49-year-old left-arm spinner Bert Ironmonger took 11 wickets for 24.

At Old Trafford in 1888England scored just 172, but bowled out Australia for 81 and 70 to win by an innings and 21 runs. and In Wellington in 1946in the first Test match after World War II, Australia declared at 199 for 8, either side dismantling New Zealand for 42 and 54.

The lowest total of the current century before the MacKay match was Australia 267 in Melbourne In 2021, when England were bowled out for 185 and 68.

Sonal Dinosha scored a double century in Colombo, in a match which Sri Lanka followed suit with. Has anyone else done this in testing? asked Mithra De Silva from Sri Lanka

Left-handed Sonal Dinocha He followed up with 103 in the first innings against India last week with 133 not out in the second innings Sri Lanka resolutely avoided defeat in Colombo.

Dinusha is only the third batsman to score two tons in a Test followed by his team, after India’s Vijay Hazare, who made 116 and 145. Against Australia in Adelaide In 1948 (a match in which Don Bradman was also bowled, although he scored 201), and Andy Flower of Zimbabwe, who made 142 and 199 not out Against South Africa in Harare In 2001.

I saw that Joe Root had scored eight Test centuries at Lord’s. Is this a record? asked David Parker from England

By the end of the second Test against Pakistan – his 25th at Lord’s – Joe Root He scored eight centuries there. This is the Lord’s record: Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan They both made sixAnd Kevin Petersen and Andrew Strauss have five each.

Only three players have scored more Testing of centuries on one earth. Mahela Jayawardene He got 11 hundreds in 27 Tests at the Sinhala Sports Club in Colombo, which was also his home country. Jacques Kallis scored nine hundreds in 24 Tests for the Wanderers in Johannesburg, while although Don Bradman played just 11 Tests at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he accumulated nine centuries there, averaging 128.53.

Who has scored the most centuries in a single Test series? asked Jonathan Wright from England

That record has stood for over 70 years now: The Great West Indian Clyde Walcott He hit five centuries in their Home series against Australia early in 1955. Although his efforts brought him 827 runs in the series, Australia won it 3-0. “I never saw a stronger hitter than Walcott,” Richie Benaud wrote in 1969. “When he was going, it was almost impossible to throw the ball away from him. He was a good 6 feet 2 inches tall and broadly built, and he was the hardest hitter in my memory.”

Walcott’s record may stand for some time, as there are fewer five-Test series these days. like This list appearsThere have been 21 other Test series in which a batsman has scored four centuries, the last by Shubman Gill for India in England in 2025. Don Bradman has done it three times, and Sunil Gavaskar and Herbert Sutcliffe twice.

I noticed that 75 of Rashid Khan’s ODI wickets were lbw, which is almost a third. Do any of these records? asked Kabir Shehzad from Pakistan

You are right that 75 of the Afghan leg clipper Rashid Khan226 wickets in one-day international matches – i.e. 33.18% – came by way of lbs. Pakistan’s Wasim Akram has had more lbw in ODIs, with 92, but the only bowler with a higher percentage (given at least 50 wickets overall) is the Sri Lankan leg-spinner. Wanendu HasarangaWith 40 lbs from 113 wickets or 35.39%.