Australia won the second Test against Bangladesh despite only scoring 210 themselves. Was this the lowest total to result in an innings victory? asked Mark de Kretser from Australia, among others
Australia's 210 in the second Test against Bangladesh in Mackay - the first played at the Great Barrier Reef Arena - was actually the fourth-lowest to be sufficient for an innings victory in a Test. Smallest of all was Australia's 153 in Melbourne in 1932, when South Africa were bowled out twice on a rain-affected pitch for 36 and 45, with the 49-year-old left-arm spinner Bert Ironmonger taking 11 wickets for 24.
At Old Trafford in 1888, England scored only 172, but skittled Australia for 81 and 70 to win by an innings and 21 runs. And in Wellington in 1946, in the first Test match after the Second World War, Australia declared at 199 for 8, either side of dismantling New Zealand for 42 and 54.
The lowest total in the current century before the match in Mackay was Australia's 267 in Melbourne in 2021, when England were bowled out for 185 and 68.
Sonal Dinusha scored twin centuries in Colombo, in a match in which Sri Lanka followed on. Has anyone else done this in a Test? asked Mithra de Silva from Sri Lanka
Left-hander Sonal Dinusha followed 103 in the first innings against India last week with 133 not out in the second, as Sri Lanka resolutely staved off defeat in Colombo.
Dinusha is only the third batter to score twin tons in a Test in which his side followed on, following India's Vijay Hazare, who made 116 and 145 against Australia in Adelaide in 1948 (a match in which he also bowled Don Bradman, although he had scored 201), and Andy Flower of Zimbabwe, who amassed 142 and 199 not out against South Africa in Harare in 2001.
I saw that Joe Root has scored eight Test centuries at Lord's. Is that a record? asked David Barker from England
By the end of the second Test against Pakistan - his 25th at Lord's - Joe Root had scored eight centuries there. That's the record for Lord's: Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan both made six, and Kevin Petersen and Andrew Strauss five apiece.
Only three players have scored more Test centuries on a single ground. Mahela Jayawardene totted up 11 hundreds in 27 Tests at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo, which was also his own home ground. Jacques Kallis scored nine hundreds in 24 Tests at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, while although Don Bradman played only 11 Tests at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he piled up nine centuries there, and averaged 128.53.
Kumar Sangakkara also scored eight Test centuries at the SSC in Colombo; he and Jayawardene also both made seven in Galle. Michael Clarke scored seven in Adelaide and Kane Williamson seven in Hamilton, while Mominul Haque currently has seven in Chattogram.
Who has scored the most centuries in a single Test series? asked Jonathan Wright from England
This record has stood for over 70 years now: the great West Indian Clyde Walcott hit five centuries in their home series against Australia early in 1955. Despite his efforts, which brought him 827 runs in the series, Australia still won it 3-0. "I have never seen a more powerful batsman than Walcott," wrote Richie Benaud in 1969. "When he was 'going' it was almost impossible to bowl a length to him. He was a good 6ft 2ins in height and broadly built, and the most powerful striker off the back foot in my memory."
Walcott's record may stand for a while yet, as there are fewer five-Test series these days. As this list shows, there have been 21 further Test series in which a batter scored four centuries, most recently by Shubman Gill for India in England in 2025. Don Bradman did it three times, and Sunil Gavaskar and Herbert Sutcliffe twice.
I noticed that 75 of Rashid Khan's ODI wickets have been lbw, which is about a third. Are either of these records? asked Kabir Shahzad from Pakistan
You're right that 75 of the Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan's 226 wickets in one-day internationals - that's 33.18% - have come by way of lbws. Pakistan's Wasim Akram had more lbws in ODIs, with 92, but the only bowler with a higher percentage (given a minimum of 50 wickets overall) is the Sri Lankan legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga, with 40 lbws out of 113 wickets, or 35.39%.
The records in Tests are held by India's Anil Kumble (156 lbws, seven more than Muthiah Muralidaran), and Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka (27 lbws in 70 wickets, 38.57%). In T20Is Rashid Khan leads the way again with 49 lbws to Hasaranga's 37, while the percentage leader (minimum of 25 wickets) is Switzerland's left-arm spinner Aneesh Kumar, with 12 out of 29 (41.37%).
Shiva Jayaraman of Cricinfo's stats team helped with some of the above answers.
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