Name: Shinu George
Question: What is the lowest first innings score that has resulted in an innings victory in Tests?
Answer 2: Australia's 153 against South Africa (36 & 45) resulted in a win by an innings & 72 runs for the former at Melbourne in February 1932.

Name: Aloke Seth
Question: Which fielder has the distinction of taking 50 catches for the first time in Tests?
Answer 3: England's all-round cricketer Wilfred Rhodes was the first fieldsman to reach the landmark of 50 catches in Tests. He did so during the 1913-14 season against South Africa at Port Elizabeth.

Name: Pratik
Question: Can you show me in table format the number of matches in which Tendulkar, Waugh and Lara have either been top-scorers or have scored a century and their respective teams have won the game?
Answer 4: The table below is self-explanatory:

	A	B	C
S Waugh	35	17	48.57
S Tendulkar	31	7	22.58
B Lara	40	9	22.50

A - Number of times the batsman top-scored (in a completed innings only)
B - Number of times the team won while the batsman top-scored in a completed innings
C - Win percentage with the batsman top-scoring

Name: Prashanth
Question: 1. Which bowler has taken the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar the most number of times in Tests?
2. In the last three years what is the mode in which Sachin has got out (bowled, lbw, caught) the most, and for this mode who has got him out the most number of times?
Answer 5: Overall, South Africa's Hansie Cronje and Allan Donald and Australian Glenn McGrath have dismissed Tendulkar the most number of times -- five each -- in Tests.

Since 1-10-2000 (that is in the last three years) Australian Jason Gillespie, Englishman Matthew Hoggard, West Indian Pedro Collins, and Zimbabwean Ray Price have dismissed him on the most occasions -- three times each.

His modes of dismissal in the last three years are:

• Caught by fielder (16)
  
• Leg before (10)
  
• Bowled (9)
  
• Caught by 'keeper (8)
  
• Stumped (1).

Name: Manohar
Question: Can you compare the captaincy records of Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly in both ODIs and Tests?
Answer 6: Captaincy records for...

Tests	M	W	L	D	Win%
Azharuddin	47	14	14	19	29.79
Tendulkar	25	4	9	12	16.00
Ganguly	32	13	10	9	40.63

ODIs	M	W	L	NR	Tie	Win%
Azharuddin	174	90	76	6	2	51.72
Tendulkar	73	23	43	6	1	31.51
Ganguly	104	56	44	4	0	53.85

Name: Adolf D'Souza
Question: Can we have a list and results of Test matches where Sunny & Vishy shared 100+ run partnerships and also the ones in which they both scored centuries?
Answer 7: Gavaskar and Vishwanath have been involved in the following 100-plus partnerships:

• 159 runs for the third wicket v Aus at Delhi, 1979-80
• 155 runs for the second wicket v the West Indies at Mumbai, 1978-79
• 112 runs for the third wicket v the West Indies at Georgetown, 1970-71
• 101 runs for the third wicket v Pak at Faisalabad, 1978-79

Only on two occasions have both Gavaskar and Vishwanath recorded centuries in the same Test innings: Gavaskar (102) and Vishwanath (112) in the second innings v the West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1975-76 (India won the match) and then against Australia at Delhi in 1979-80, when the former scored 115 and the latter 131. This match was drawn.

Name: courage
Question: (1) Against which team did Sir Gary Sobers make his Test debut?
(2) Who was the only West Indian captain never to lose a Test series?
Answer 8: Gary Sobers made his Test debut against England at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1953-54.

Among players who have led the West Indies in more than five Test matches, only Vivian Richards has the distinction of never losing a Test series. His record in 14 series is eight wins and six draws.

Name: Amith C N
Question: What is Sourav Ganguly's average in his last 20 Test innings? How many times has he got out to fast bowlers? What is his average abroad in Tests?
Answer 9: Ganguly Test record in the last 20 innings: 721 runs (avg 40.55), 1 hundred and 5 fifties. His away Test average since then is 48.00. In the last 20 innings he has been dismissed 18 times, 17 times by pace bowlers (West Indian Cameron Cuffy getting him on three occasions).

Name: Ramakrishnan
Question: I think Graham Thorpe of England scored a century in the Lahore Test against Pakistan without a boundary. Is there any other player in history who has scored a century without a boundary?
Answer 10: Thorpe made 118 with just two boundaries at Lahore in 2000-01. No batsman in Test history has scored a hundred without a boundary.