What is the most extras conceded in an innings in any match?
Also: has there ever been a Test innings where all 11 players have bowled?
The 81 extras conceded by Gloucestershire in Hampshire's first innings at Cheltenham College last week - the unfortunate James Bracey let through 48 byes, and there were also 20 no-balls, 11 leg-byes and two wides - equalled the fourth-highest amount for any County Championship match (and indeed any first-class match in England). The most is 98, conceded by Essex against Northamptonshire in Northampton in 1999, Kent conceded 88 in Sussex's first innings in Hove in 2004, and Surrey let slip 86 extras against Somerset at The Oval in 1997. Oddly, the match at Cheltenham provided the sixth instance of 81 extras in a Championship innings, four of them coming in 1994 and the other (by Derbyshire vs Durham) in 2018.
I can only see five run-outs in the match I think you're talking about, in Coolidge, Antigua, a couple of weeks ago. It was the ninth instance of five run-outs in a women's T20I innings - but there has been one case of six, pulled off by Myanmar's fielders against Singapore, in Singapore in April 2019. There have also been four cases of six run-outs in an innings in women's one-day internationals.
The lowest Test total that included two individual centuries is Pakistan's 230 for 3 against New Zealand in Hyderabad in 1984-85; Mudassar Nazar made 106 and Javed Miandad 103 not out as Pakistan won the match by seven wickets.
The match you're talking about, in Madras (now Chennai) in 1981-82, is one of 14 Test innings to feature ten bowlers, most of those getting their chance to bowl as the games petered out to draws. But as this list shows, there have been four occasions when all 11 players turned their arms over. The first such instance was at The Oval in 1884, when WG Grace tried everything as Australia amassed 551. Grace's secret weapon turned out to be his wicketkeeper, Alfred Lyttelton, who delivered underarm lobs without removing his pads, and claimed 4 for 19, including Billy Midwinter caught behind by Grace (from the first ball he kept to in a Test).
There's no one who falls into that category - if there had been, I'd have mentioned it last week. The highest score in their second Test by someone who didn't bat in the first is 75, by the South African wicketkeeper Ronnie Grieveson against England in 1938-39. He made his debut in the fourth Test in Johannesburg but didn't bat, and made 75 in the final Test in Durban - the so-called Timeless Test, which ended in a draw after ten days when the England team had to leave to catch the boat home. That was the end of Grieveson's brief international career: because of the Second World War, South Africa didn't have another Test for more than eight years.
It's appropriate in a column like this to mention the passing of one of cricket's greatest historians and statisticians, Peter-Wynne-Thomas, who died last week aged 86. Originally an architectural consultant, he established a superb library at Trent Bridge (it now bears his name). He wrote several books, and was an unending fund of facts and anecdotes about players from far and wide. He was a founder member of the Association of Statisticians, and ran its headquarters and homely shop - across the road from Nottinghamshire's ground at Trent Bridge - for a long time. All this was achieved without the aid of a computer, or email - his books, and his voluminous research and correspondence, were usually banged out on an old Olivetti typewriter. And, despite a forbidding moustache, which gave him the look of a stern headmaster, he was the most genial and helpful of men, to keen researchers and casual visitors alike. I mentioned in last week's column a title that had jokingly been bestowed on me - but actually, the man who quite possibly knew more about cricket than anybody who ever lived was the one and only "PWT".
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes