The next Test will be the 100th played at The Oval. How many other grounds have reached three figures? asked Jeremy Delaney from England
The forthcoming third Test in the seesaw series between England and South Africa will indeed be the 100th to be held at the Kennington Oval in south London. The ground, which staged the first Test in England back in 1880, will be the fourth to reach three figures: Lord's has staged the most Test matches, with 134, while Melbourne has held 109 and Sydney 105. Next to 100 should be Old Trafford, which has staged 77 Tests so far; Adelaide and Headingley have each had 75.
It's a different story in one-day internationals, where Sharjah has staged 226 such matches, ahead of Sydney (154), Melbourne (147), Harare (136) and the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo (122). The Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur has held 98 ODIs so far. The Oval leads the way in England, with 65; Lord's has staged 60 and Edgbaston 58.
I know who has the highest Test score at The Oval, but who has the best bowling figures there? asked Jamie Ferguson from England
The answer here might rekindle some painful memories for South Africans, as the best Test bowling figures at The Oval came against them in 1994, when Devon Malcolm steamed in for 9 for 57 - as legend has it, after being clonked on the helmet by a short ball from Fanie de Villiers and growling "You guys are history" at the smirking close fielders. The only other man to collect nine in a Test innings at The Oval is Muttiah Muralitharan, with 9 for 65 in Sri Lanka's victory in 1998. Hugh Trumble (1902), Sydney Barnes (1912) and Michael Holding (1976) all took eight in an innings at The Oval.
And just in case anyone doesn't know, the highest Test score at The Oval remains Len Hutton's 364, for England against Australia in 1938. South Africa's Hashim Amla made the only other Test triple-century there, with 311 not out in 2012, and there have been 18 other double-hundreds - two of them by Hutton, whose 1521 Test runs at The Oval is easily a record.
Was Harmanpreet Kaur's 171 the highest ever scored against Australia in an ODI? asked Bilal Ahmed from India
Harmanpreet Kaur's remarkable 171 not out in the World Cup semi-final in Derby wasn't quite the highest score against Australia in a one-day international - because Chamari Atapattu Jayangani had hit 178 not out for Sri Lanka earlier in the competition, in Bristol. But these two scores easily eclipsed the previous highest against Australia in all ODIs, Suzie Bates' 122 not out for New Zealand in Sydney in December 2012. The best against Australia in a World Cup before this one was Enid Bakewell's 118 for England at Edgbaston in the first such tournament, in 1973.
I read that Arthur Morris, the great Australian opener, scored two hundreds on his first-class debut. How many others have done this? asked Stuart McGregor from Australia
Arthur Morris, best known as the free-scoring left-hander at the top of the Invincibles' batting order in 1948, was actually the first person to do this: he made 148 and 111 on his first-class debut, for New South Wales against Queensland in Sydney in 1940-41. There have been just six instances since, four of them in the last eight years. Nari Contractor, later to captain India, made 152 and 102 not out on debut for Gujarat in Baroda in 1952-53, then Aamer Malik, who would win 14 Test caps for Pakistan, hit 132 not out and 110 for Lahore City against Railways in Lahore in 1979-80. More recently, Noor Ali Zadran scored 130 and 100 not out for Afghanistan against a Zimbabwe XI in Mutare in 2009-10, Tharanga Indika made 158 and 103 not out for Police against Seeduwa Raddoluwa in Colombo in 2010-11, and Virag Awate hit 126 and 112 for Maharashtra against Vidarbha in Nagpur in 2012-13 (in six further matches he failed to reach 40). Finally Travis Dean made 154 and 109, both not out - the first instance of two undefeated centuries on first-class debut - for Victoria against Queensland at Melbourne in 2015-16.
There's a chance that Ed Joyce and Boyd Rankin might play Tests for two different countries, if they play in Ireland's inaugural matches. How many people have done this? asked Henry O'Donnell from Ireland
So far there have been 14 men who played official Test matches for two different countries - only two of them in the last 60 years. Those two are John Traicos, who won three caps for South Africa in 1969-70, and was still around when Zimbabwe played their first Tests in 1992-93 (his 22-year gap between appearances is another Test record), and Kepler Wessels, who followed 24 matches for Australia with 16 for South Africa once they were readmitted to the Test arena in 1991-92.
Boyd Rankin, whose solitary Test appearance for England came at Sydney in 2013-14, might yet join this list, but Ed Joyce won't - although he played 17 one-day internationals for England, he never appeared in a Test. Dublin-born Eoin Morgan did play 16 Tests for England between 2010 and 2011-12, scoring centuries against Pakistan and India.
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