Prior's unwanted record, and the biggest 10-wicket win

England conceded 52 byes in the final Test in Trinidad - was this a record for any Test? asked Phil Manning from Brighton

Matt Prior conceded 52 byes during the recent fifth Test in Port-of-Spain, and this was indeed a new record - if a rather unwanted one - for an individual wicketkeeper in a Test. The previous worst was 47, allowed by India's Dinesh Karthik against Pakistan in Bangalore in 2007-08. Prior and Karthik now also share the dubious distinction of having conceded the most byes (35) by a specialist keeper in an innings in a Test, although the overall record still stands to England's Frank Woolley, with 37 during the fifth and final Ashes Test of 1934 at The Oval. Woolley, though, was only deputising for Les Ames, who was suffering from lumbago - and he had another excuse: he was 47 at the time!

Someone told me after India's recent one-day win against New Zealand that 201 was the highest score for a 10-wicket victory, could you please confirm this? asked RPS Bhollu from New Zealand

Well, first of all the official result for last week's match in Hamilton was an Indian win by 84 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method, because although they scored 201 for 0 their innings was then interrupted, the match ended, and the calculators came out. But in any case it wasn't the highest winning score without losing a wicket by a side batting second in a one-day international: the record is 221 for 0, by West Indies against Pakistan in Melbourne during the 1991-92 World Cup (an innings in which Brian Lara retired hurt). For a full list of 10-wicket victories in ODIs, click here.

Mahela Jayawardene's recent hundred against Pakistan meant he has scored a Test century against all nine possible opponents. Who are the others to have achieved this? asked Selva from New Zealand

Mahela Jayawardene was actually the 10th batsman to complete a full hand of centuries against the nine possible opponents (bear in mind that this feat has only been possible since Bangladesh started playing Tests in 2000-01, so many earlier batsmen never had the chance to play all nine). The other nine players to have done it are the Australians Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh, Jayawardene's fellow Sri Lankans Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar of India, Gary Kirsten (South Africa) and Brian Lara (West Indies). Matthew Hayden also scored Test centuries against nine different opponents, but one of those was the World XI in the Super Series match in Sydney in 2005-06 - he never scored a Test century against Bangladesh. (Gilchrist and Ponting also played in that Super Series game but missed the chance of scoring a Test century against a 10th opponent.)

Who were cricket's "unholy trinity"? asked Ted Cooper from Blackpool

The only one I'm aware of is the trio featured in David Foot's fine 1985 book Cricket's Unholy Trinity, which looked at the lives and cricket careers of three county cricketers - Jack MacBryan, Charlie Parker and Cecil Parkin - who, for various reasons, played very little Test cricket. Parkin did win 10 Test caps, but the other two won just one apiece - and MacBryan's one appearance, against South Africa at Old Trafford in 1924, was completely unmemorable, in that he did not bat or bowl or take a catch in a match restricted to about half a day's play by rain.

England played five Tests in the West Indies recently, but four of them were drawn. Has there ever been a five-Test series where all the matches were drawn? asked Kasun Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka

There have been four - fortunately for spectators, none very recently. The first two involved India and Pakistan - the 1954-55 series in Pakistan, and the 1960-61 rubber in India. Three years later in 1963-64 India hosted England for another series in which all five Tests were drawn. Then in 1971-72 New Zealand toured West Indies for the first time, and drew all five Test matches.

I've noticed that there have been around 2800 one-day internationals and 1900 Test matches to date. I was just wondering, in which year did the ODIs overtake the Tests? asked Danyal Rasool from Pakistan

The changeover actually occurred during the 1999 World Cup in England. Before the tournament there had been 1454 Test matches and 1442 one-day internationals, so the 13th match of that World Cup - the game between England and South Africa at The Oval - was the 1455th ODI.