Who's the leading wicket-taker in the IPL? Is Jasprit Bumrah near the top? asked Dilip Kumar Chohan from India
Before the 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League got under way, Jasprit Bumrah stood joint sixth on the list of wicket-takers with 183, level with Dwayne Bravo, who led the way for many years before being overhauled after retirement.
Bravo once took 32 wickets in an IPL season (a record equalled by Harshal Patel in 2021), and if Bumrah managed to match that he'd move up the list - but not to the top, where legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal currently sits with 221. Bhuvneshwar Kumar (198 wickets) and Sunil Narine (192) are also both ahead of Bumrah at the moment.
To save anyone asking, Virat Kohli is comfortably ahead in the batting list with 8661 runs, well clear of Rohit Sharma (7046), Shikhar Dhawan (6769) and the leading overseas player, David Warner (6565).
Which of the IPL teams has never reached the final? asked Milind Dhanak from India
The only one of the ten current IPL teams that has never made it to a final is Lucknow Super Giants. They have played in only four seasons so far, reaching the playoffs in the first two (2022 and 2023) but failing to reach the final.
Of the teams who have appeared in every IPL season, Delhi Capitals have reached only one final (2020) and lost it, while Punjab Kings have reached two and lost both. Among defunct teams, Deccan Chargers won on their only final appearance in 2009, while Rising Pune Supergiant lost the final in 2017, the second of their two seasons in the tournament.
Chennai Super Kings are the most successful team, with five titles and five other appearances in the final. Mumbai Indians have also won the IPL five times, but only reached the final on one other occasion (2010). Chargers are the only team with a 100% success rate in the final, but they had only five seasons in the competition before being replaced by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2013.
Has anyone scored a century on debut in a T20 international? asked Michael West from England
So far four men have scored a century in their first T20I, all of them from non-Test nations. The highest debut score is 108 not out, by Canada's Matthew Spoors against Philippines in Al Amerat (Oman) in 2022. The other centuries were hit by Leslie Dunbar (104 not out for Serbia against Bulgaria in Corfu in 2019), JP Kotze (101 not out for Namibia vs Botswana in Windhoek in 2019), and Ravinderpal Singh - the first to do it, two days before Kotze - with 101 for Canada against Cayman Islands in Sandys Parish (Bermuda) in 2019.
The highest debut score for a Test-playing country is 98 not out, by Australia's Ricky Ponting against New Zealand in the very first T20I in Auckland in 2005. Another Aussie, David Warner, hit 89 on his T20I debut, against South Africa in Melbourne in 2009. Warner was almost unknown at the time, as he hadn't yet played a first-class match.
When I started researching this one, no woman had scored a century in her first T20I - but that changed last weekend! Playing for Rwanda against Ghana in Lagos (Nigeria), opener Fanny Utagushimaninde hit 111 not out in her first such match. She's only 15, and became the youngest women's T20I centurion. The youngest man was 18-year-old Gustav McKeon, for France against Switzerland in Vantaa (Finland) in 2022.
Is Tatenda Taibu still the youngest to captain in a Test match? asked Tino Makhani from Zimbabwe
Tatenda Taibu was a week short of his 21st birthday when he first captained Zimbabwe in a Test, against Sri Lanka in Harare in May 2004. That made him the youngest captain at the time, beating the 21-year-old Nawab of Pataudi junior in March 1962 - but Taibu was undercut by a week in September 2019, when Rashid Khan captained Afghanistan in a Test against Bangladesh in Chattogram, aged 20 years and 350 days.
Rashid already held the record as the only teenage captain in one-day internationals: he was 19 years 165 days old when he skippered Afghanistan against Scotland in Bulawayo during the World Cup Qualifier in March 2018. In T20Is, Croatia's Zach Vukusic was only 17 when he captained against Cyprus in Zagreb in August 2025.
In women's internationals the records are held in Tests by Ruth Symons (New Zealand, 21 in 1934-35), in ODIs by Aditiba Chudasama (USA, 18 in 2024), and in T20Is by Amelia Mundundo (Mozambique, 14 in 2022).
After your answer last week about Test cricketers born in Zambia, my friends and I tried - and failed - to think of any born on the continent of South America. Who have we missed ? asked Mikey Henderson from Barbados
Well, for a start there have been more than 50 Test cricketers who were born in Guyana (the former British Guiana), which is on the south American mainland. Apart from them, there are so far just two other Test cricketers who were born elsewhere in South America. The former England captain Freddie Brown, whose Test career stretched almost 22 years between 1931 and 1953, was born in Lima, the capital of Peru, where his father was a prominent businessman. Many years later, left-hander Ashok Gandotra played two Tests for India in 1969-70: he had been born in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 1948, while his father was working in the foreign service.
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