How often has a batter been run out without facing a delivery at the start of a T20 innings?
And is Mumbai Indians' eight consecutive losses the worst start to an IPL season by any team?

Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians have lost all eight of their matches since the start of IPL 2022, a record • BCCI
Mumbai Indians' horror start to the 2022 IPL does indeed turn out to be the worst yet: defeat to Lucknow Super Giants in Mumbai on Sunday meant they had lost all eight of their matches up to that point. Two other teams started an IPL season with six straight defeats - Delhi Daredevils in 2013, and Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2019.
The three double-centuries in that match in Derby earlier this month came from Shan Masood, with 239 for Derbyshire, and the Sussex pair of Tom Haines (243) and Cheteshwar Pujara (201 not out). I was slightly surprised to discover that this equalled the first-class record: there had been ten previous instances of three double-hundreds in the same game, the most recent two coming in India's Ranji Trophy in 2016-17, in the matches between Delhi and Maharashtra in Mumbai and Baroda and Punjab in Delhi.
Given a minimum of 50 Test wickets, the worst strike rate belongs to the former West Indian captain Carl Hooper, whose 114 victims came at a strike rate of 121 balls per wicket - that's more than 20 overs for each one. Next comes Australia's miserly medium-pacer Ken "Slasher" Mackay, who went for well under two runs an over but didn't take many wickets: his 50 came at a rate of one every 115.8 balls. The worst among those with more than 200 wickets is another West Indian captain, Garry Sobers, whose 235 came at a strike rate of 91.9.
Kent's new opener Ben Compton carried his bat for 104 in the first innings of the recent Championship match against Lancashire in Canterbury, and was last out in the second innings for 115. This was the 12th instance of a man batting throughout both innings of a first-class match, the first since Derbyshire's Luke Sutton (140 not out and 54) did it against Sussex in Derby in 2001.
Opening with Aaron Finch for Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunil Narine was run out without facing against Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai last week. He was actually the fourth batter to collect what some call a "diamond duck" in the IPL, following Karan Goel for Kings XI Punjab against Royals in Cape Town in 2009, and M Vijay for Chennai Super Kings against Delhi Daredevils in Delhi in 2012 (both from the first ball of the match), and Colin Munro for Delhi against Royals in Jaipur in 2018, which like Narine's dismissal was from the opening delivery of the chase.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes