June 10, 2003
Name: BV Iyer
Question: Best bowling and batting figures of Kapil Dev in Test/One-day matches?
Answer 1:
Kapil's best bowling (Test): 9-83 v West Indies at Ahmedabad 1983-84.
Best bowling (ODI): 5-43 v Australia at Nottingham 1983.
Best batting (Test): 163 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur 1986-87.
Best batting (ODI): 175 not out v Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells in 1983.
Name: Raaz Khan
Question: Who is the first batsmen to score a double century on debut?
Answer 2: England's Reg Foster made 287 against Australia at Sydney in 1903-04.
Name: Ravi Sundar
Question: Who has scored maximum centuries that has resulted in winning a match?
Answer 3: Australians Don Bradman and Steve Waugh have scored 23 Test hundreds each while their sides have won the match.
Name: Manick Venkatachalam
Question: What is the highest score in a Test innings, when no single player scored a hundred?
Answer 4: India's 524-9 declared is the highest Test total recorded without a single hundred. Mohinder Amarnath's 70 was the highest individual score of the innings.
Name: Prashanth
Question: Hi Mr. Menon, I want the comparative study of statistics in ODIs of Kapil Dev and Javagal Srinath. Could you also classify them as overseas and domestic tours?
Answer 5:
Kapil home and away in ODIs:
| Played | M | Balls | Md | R | W | Ave | Best | 5 | 4 | SR | ER |
| Home | 85 | 4065 | 72 | 2715 | 100 | 27.15 | 4/31 | 0 | 1 | 40.65 | 4.01 |
| Away | 140 | 7137 | 163 | 4230 | 153 | 27.65 | 5/43 | 1 | 2 | 46.65 | 3.56 |
| Total | 225 | 11202 | 235 | 6945 | 253 | 27.45 | 5/43 | 1 | 3 | 44.28 | 3.72 |
Srinath home and away in ODIs:
| Played | M | Balls | Md | R | W | Ave | Best | 5 | 4 | SR | ER |
| Home | 80 | 4112 | 40 | 3143 | 103 | 30.51 | 5/24 | 2 | 0 | 39.92 | 4.59 |
| Away | 149 | 7823 | 95 | 5704 | 212 | 26.91 | 5/23 | 1 | 7 | 36.90 | 4.37 |
| Total | 229 | 11935 | 135 | 8847 | 315 | 28.09 | 5/23 | 3 | 7 | 37.89 | 4.45 |
Name: Tushar Pattani
Question: Hello Mr. Menon, which opening pair has the highest number of Tests under their belt? Which is the one for India?
Answer 6: The West Indian pair of Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes have opened the innings on a record 148 occasions. For India, the record is held by Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan, who have opened together on 59 occasions.
Name: Sajid Anwer
Question: Sir, can you provide details of the Rasheed brothers of Pakistan. I am told they were 11 brothers who played first-class cricket in Pakistan.
Answer 7: In fact, seven Rasheed brothers appeared in first-class cricket in Pakistan. They are Haroon Rasheed, Mahmood Rasheed, Tahir Rasheed, Umar Rasheed, Mohtashim Rasheed, Ahmed Rasheed and Farooq Rasheed. Only the eldest brother, Haroon Rasheed, has appeared in Test matches.
Name: Avi Talati
Question: Which Indian batsman has the most runs while playing for India 'A'?
Answer 8: Gagan Khoda has an aggregate of 371 runs (41.22) in six unofficial Test matches for India 'A'.
Name: Ajit Bhaver
Question: Has any women cricketer scored a double century?
Answer 9: There are in all five double centuries recorded by women cricketers in women's Test cricket. Interestingly, the highest score is 214 runs by Indian Mithali Raj, against England at Taunton in August 2002. In women's ODIs, Australian Belinda Clark is the only one to do so when she made an unbeaten 229 at Bandra, Mumbai, against Denmark on 16-12-1997.
Name: Sunny Vishal
Question: Who is the 1000th player to play in Tests?
Answer 10: The distinction goes to Australian keeper-batsman Len Maddocks, when he made his Test debut against England at Melbourne on 31-12-1954. He thus became the 1000th player in Test cricket history to appear in Test matches.