Which Indian batsman made hundreds in five successive Tests this century?
And who was the first man to take ten wickets in a first-class innings in India?
Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored 203 not out (a score he would later reprise twice in adult Test matches) in the first match of that U-19 series in 1993, at Trent Bridge (Michael Vaughan made 119 for England). A fortnight later, left-hander Mathew Dowman - who would go on to a reasonable county career with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire - made 267 for England in the second Test in Hove.
I think the answer to this one might stump the average quizzer - it's not the usual suspects Tendulkar or Dravid or Kohli. The man in question was Gautam Gambhir, who scored centuries in successive Tests in New Zealand early in 2009, later in the year added two more against Sri Lanka, and then early in 2010 made another against Bangladesh. As this list shows, Gambhir was only the third man, after Jacques Kallis and Mohammad Yousuf, to score hundreds in five successive Tests - although they are all trumped by Don Bradman, who reached 100 in six successive Tests between 1936-37 and 1938. Bradman's sequence was interrupted by an injury that prevented him from batting at The Oval in 1938, and he scored two more hundreds in his next two matches, in 1946-47 - so actually made centuries in eight successive Tests in which he batted.
The first man to take all ten wickets in an innings in a first-class match in India was the much-travelled Australian allrounder Frank Tarrant, who took 10 for 90 with his slow left-armers - and then scored 182 not out - for the Maharajah of Cooch Behar's XI against Lord Willingdon's side in Poona in August 1918. Tarrant is a candidate for the tag of best player never to have appeared in an official Test: he missed out mainly because he left Australia to play for Middlesex in the English County Championship. An interesting book about Tarrant's unusual career, by the Australian writer Mike Coward, was published recently.
This is a slightly contrived record, I suppose, but Asad Shafiq does indeed have the lowest highest score of anyone with ten or more Test centuries. He just pips India's Mohinder Amarnath, who made 11 tons with a highest score of 138. Next comes England's Allan Lamb, with 14 centuries and a highest of 142. And there's an honourable mention for Mark Waugh, who reached three figures 20 times in Tests but never exceeded his 153 not out against India in Bangalore in 1997-98 (Waugh did make a higher score - 173 against West Indies in Melbourne in 2000-01 - in one-day internationals).
There are five men who made a Test stumping but never took a catch - Englishmen Don Brennan, George Street and Neville Tufnell, Pakistan's Abdul Kadir, and Shahriar Hossain of Bangladesh. But pride of place has to go to Vijay Rajindernath of India, who made four stumpings (three off Subhash Gupte) but did not take a catch on his Test debut, in a ten-wicket victory against Pakistan in Bombay in 1952-53 - and was never selected again.
"Apart from Mumbai Indians, no one has taken a five-for in the IPL against Kolkata Knight Riders or Royal Challengers Bangalore either. The best against KKR is 4 for 8 by Dwayne Smith for Gujarat Lions in Kanpur in 2016, while Ashish Nehra took 4 for 10 for Chennai Super Kings against RCB in Bangalore in 2015." This is correct. Apologies for my mistake, which was to say "in the IPL" - because both teams did concede a five-for in the short-lived Champions League T20, which ran from 2009 to 2014. Slow left-armer Pawan Negi took 5 for 22 for Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata Knight Riders in the final in Bangalore in October 2014, while tearaway fast bowler Shaun Tait took 5 for 32 for South Australia against the Royal Challengers in Bangalore in October 2011.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes