Has there ever been a Test innings in which all ten wickets were out caught?
And how often have the highest individual scores in an innings come from Nos. 9, 10 and 11?
In 2022, Jack Leach and Saqib Mahmood top-scored in England's innings from Nos. 10 and 11, the last instance of this happening before West Indies vs Pakistan in Multan this month • Getty Images
West Indies' first innings in Multan over the weekend was unique in Test history: never before have the three highest scores in an innings come from the last three batters in the order. No. 9 Gudakesh Motie made 19, No. 10 Jomel Warrican 31 not out, and No. 11 Jayden Seales 22. The next highest was 11, by opener Kraigg Brathwaite and No. 8 Kevin Sinclair.
You're right that Mark Richardson took only one wicket in Tests - Mohammad Yousuf of Pakistan in Christchurch in 2001, after he'd scored 203. It turns out that Richardson lies second on this particular list, behind South Africa's Ashwell Prince of South Africa, whose only Test wicket came in Cape Town in 2006, when he dismissed New Zealand's Stephen Fleming for 262. They were batters having a rare trundle in a big total, but a specialist bowler lies third: the sole wicket for Kent seamer Jack Martin in his only Test, at Trent Bridge in 1947, was South Africa's captain Alan Melville for 189.
Two retired players scored centuries in their first and last one-day internationals. The first was England's Dennis Amiss, who made 103 (the first ODI century) on his debut, against Australia at Old Trafford in 1972, and 108 in his last match, against Australia at The Oval in 1977.
There have been no fewer than 93 instances so far of all ten wickets in a Test innings falling to catches, the most recent by Australian fielders in India's first innings in Perth in November, one of five such cases in 2024. The most catches in an entire Test is 35, in another Australia-India match, in Adelaide in 2018 .
The answer to this one is someone who got a mention last week too: the great English bowler Sydney Barnes not only took 34 wickets in Australia in 1911-12, he hoovered up 49 wickets (at just under 11 runs apiece) in South Africa in 1913-14 - in only four matches, as he fell out with the management and didn't play in the final Test!
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes