Against the West Indies, who scored 322/8 in their 50 overs. What is the highest score in ODI cricket when just five bowlers have been used? – Srihari Rao, Visakhapatnam.

Joe Denly made a comeback to the England team after nearly eight years. Is this the longest for any player in the T20I format?

– Aniket Shetty, Mumbai.

England’s Joe Denly made a comeback when he played in the T20I match against Sri Lanka at the Premadasa on October 27, 201■. He last played a T20I game against Pakistan in Dubai on February 20, 2010 – a gap of eight years, 247 days. This is now the second longest for any T20I player. His former teammate Liam Plunkett holds the record of nine years, 162 days between June 2006 and November 2015. However, Denly now holds the record of missing most games in between – 79. Plunkett held the record previously by missing 74 games!

Before he was dismissed for 16 at the Brabourne Stadium, Virat Kohli had 16 consecutive scores of 25plus in ODIS. Is this a record sequence by any batsman?

– Pooja Mishra, Chandigarh.

Virat Kohli equalled the record held by Matthew Hayden of Australia, who from February 20, 2007 to October 11, 2007 made 16 scores of 25plus, which included four hundreds and four fifties, with a highest of 1■1 not out. Kohli, during his sequence, hit eight hundreds and three fifties, with a highest of 160 not out.

The West Indies’ 322/■ at Guwahati is now the second highest total by an opponent where only five Indian bowlers shared the 50 overs. Nearly 12 years ago, West Indies had made 324/■ in 50 overs in Nagpur on January 21, 2007 when only Zaheer Khan, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh and Sachin Tendulkar bowled their full quota of 10 overs each. India won that ODI by 14 runs. However, the ODI record was set recently at Edinburgh on June 10, 201■ when England used just five bowlers against Scotland, who had massed a huge total of 371/5 in their 50 overs.

In the Abu Dhabi Test against Australia, Pakistan’s Babar Azam scored a duck and then a 99. How often has a Test batsman been dismissed on a duck and then fallen one short of a century in the second innings?

– S Rajan, Nagpur.

Babar Azam is the sixth batsman to make a duck and 99 in the same Test match. However, he is the only second batsman in Test history to first register a duck and then be dismissed for a 99 in the second innings of the Test. India’s Pankaj Roy had this misfortune against Australia in Delhi during the 195960 series.