Was the Rajasthan Royals' 226 for 6 last week the highest successful chase in the IPL?
Also: is Pakistan's 574 against Australia in 1972-73 the highest Test total in defeat?
Abdullah Shafique, who's still only 20, made an unbeaten 102 from 58 balls in his first senior T20 match, for Central Punjab against Southern Punjab in Multan a few days ago. Last December, in what remains his only first-class match to date, he made 133 - for Central against Southern Punjab - in a high-scoring Quaid-e-Azam Trophy game in Karachi.
The short answer is yes: the Rajasthan Royals' 226 for 6 in reply to the Kings XI Punjab's 223 for 2 in Sharjah last week was the highest successful run chase in the IPL, beating the Royals' own 217 for 8 to defeat Deccan Chargers (214 for 5) in Hyderabad back in April 2008. It was also the highest total in the second innings of any IPL game, beating the Royals' 223 for 5 against the Chennai Super Kings - who had scored 246 for 5, and so won by 23 runs - in Chennai in April 2010.
That match against South Africa at Lord's in 1994 - when England's captain, Mike Atherton, was spotted by the cameras applying dirt from his pocket to the ball - was indeed the most recent occasion that England's Test team was made up of 11 right-hand batsmen. England have played 323 Test matches since, and have had at least one left-hander in all of them. The last Test team from anywhere composed of 11 right-handers was fielded by India against West Indies in Port-of-Spain in August 2016.
Pakistan's 574 for 8 declared in Melbourne in 1972-73, a match Australia ended up winning reasonably comfortably by 92 runs, was actually just short of the record at the time: Australia themselves had amassed 586 in Sydney in 1894-95, but lost by ten runs in the end as England became the first team to win a Test match after following on. But this record was broken in Wellington in 2016-17. Bangladesh looked impregnable after declaring their first innings at 595 for 8, but managed only 160 in their second, and New Zealand went on to win with about an hour to spare.
After the recent series between England and West Indies, the old Racecourse Ground in Derby has now hosted seven women's T20Is (it also staged games in 2006 and 2009). But that still places it well down the list of the most-used venues. In England, Taunton has held 21 women's T20Is, and Chelmsford nine; the Scottish grounds of Arbroath and Dundee have both had ten.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes