Most runs by a captain, and a Twenty20 ton

What is the most runs in a Test or a one-day series by someone who was captain at the time? asked Qamaruddin Mohammad from Lahore

As so often, Don Bradman leads the way in Tests, with 810 runs in the 1936-37 Ashes series. He did it in his first series as captain, despite starting slowly, with 38, 0, 0 and 82 in the first two Tests, which Australia lost. He bounced back with 13, 270, 26, 212 and 169 in the remaining three matches, all of which the Aussies won: this remains the only case of a team coming from 2-0 down to win a five-Test series 3-2. In 1990, Graham Gooch ran The Don very close with 752 runs in the home series against India, in only three Tests. The one-day record is 686 runs, by Australia's Greg Chappell in 14 matches in the Australian tri-series of 1980-81. For a full list, click here for Tests, or here for ODIs.

Has anyone scored a century in a Twenty20 international? asked Milind Sharma from Gargaon

The only one so far is Chris Gayle, who hit 117 against South Africa in the first match of the World Twenty20 in Johannesburg last September. Rather surprisingly, West Indies still lost.

Who has played the most Tests without appearing in one in his own country? asked Paul Sponder from Surrey

The Test record is 15, by the 19th-century Yorkshire allrounder Willie Bates, who made four separate tours of Australia - in 1881-82, 1882-83, 1884-85 and 1886-87 - without playing once at home. His 50 wickets included the first Test hat-trick for England, in Melbourne in January 1883. Bates was badly injured while bowling in the nets on his last tour, when a straight drive hit him in the face, damaging his eyesight so badly that he never played first-class cricket again. More recently, the Sri Lankan fast bowler Graeme Labrooy played nine Tests and 44 one-day internationals without ever appearing in one at home - during his career (1986-1991). Sri Lanka played very few matches at home because of the civil unrest there.

Who was the first man to take 100 catches in Tests? asked Karsan Gharib from Chennai

I have a sneaking feeling that you're trying to catch me out here! The natural thing to do is to look at a list of wicketkeepers, from which you'd think that England's Godfrey Evans must have been the first man to take 100 catches in Tests. But actually he was beaten to a century of catches by an outfielder - another Englishman, Wally Hammond, who finished his 85-Test career in 1946-47 with 110 catches, most of them at slip.

Who called his autobiography Boundary Hunter? asked Bob Samuels from Sussex

This was the title the New Zealand batsman Mark Greatbatch gave to his life story, which was published by Hodder Moa Beckett in 1996. Greatbatch's 2021 Test runs included 227 fours and ten sixes, so just under half (47.89%) of his runs came in boundaries.

Further to the recent question about wicketkeepers coming on to bowl, I have some trivia for you. The former England keeper Jack Russell once snared me with a (contentious) lbw in a benefit game for Tony Wright at Stevenage CC. Did he ever claim another wicket in first-class or club cricket? asked Del Armitage

I'm not sure about club cricket, but Jack Russell took just one wicket in first-class cricket (and none in senior one-day games). The unfortunate batsman who, like you, succumbed to Jack's wily offspin was a famous one: Richie Richardson, in the closing stages of the West Indians' tour game against Gloucestershire in Bristol in 1991. The declaration came immediately after Richardson was stumped by Mark Alleyne. Wisden reports that the wicket came "to the very occasional bowler's evident delight".

And there's an afterthought to last week's question about Andrew Symonds's nickname, "Roy", from Shane Wright:

"I have an alternative suggestion as to the origin of Andrew Symonds's nickname. For many years in Brisbane, the height of sartorial elegance for a young man was a suit made by the tailor Roy Symonds. He was quite the local personality, and phrases like 'sharp as a Roy Symonds suit' were quite commonplace."