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Sunday 4 January 2015

No home Tests in a year, doubles in most countries, players wearing glasses, and the number of first-class matches

India didn't play a home Test in 2014. When was the last calendar year this happened? - Sivakumar Venkatesan

The last year in which India didn't host a Test was 1992, when they played three in Australia, one in Zimbabwe (the hosts' inaugural Test) and three in South Africa, but none at home. It was the third year in four they had done so: after hosting nine Tests in 1987 and four in 1988, they only played a solitary home match (against Sri Lanka at Chandigarh in November 1990) in the next four years, before a three match series against England in 1993. - Ramesh Parajuli Avi

Kumar Sangakkara has now scored Test double centuries in six different countries (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, UAE and New Zealand). Has anyone else done this? - Anusha Ranaweera

No, Sangakkara is the first to reach this milestone, beating Brian Lara's previous mark of five (West Indies, Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Pakistan). Younis Khan also currently has five (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, UAE and Zimbabwe), and still has the chance to add to his collection. - Michael Jones

Did Harry Bromfield, who played 9 Tests for South Africa between 1961 and 1965, wear glasses on the field? - Ashru Mitra

Yes, he did - the 1965 series featured five bespectacled players (Geoff Boycott, MJK Smith, Eddie Barlow, Peter van der Merwe and Bromfield). - Mike Leach

The current Test match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka is number 2155 in the chronological ordering. How many first-class matches have been played? - Richard Mackey

Cricket Archive numbers all its first-class matches. Right now there are 56,047 matches in its database, from 1772 to the end of 2014; new matches are added on an almost daily basis. - Charles Davis
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