Has there even been a player who made a Test century without scoring any boundaries? And which player scored the slowest Test century of all? asked Michiel Blokland from the NetherlandsNo one has yet managed a Test century without any boundaries - the highest Test score without one is Geoff Boycott's 77 for England against Australia in Perth in 1978-79. His score did include one four - but it was all-run and the ball didn't actually reach the ropes. For some years I thought the answer was Bill Lawry's 84 for Australia v England in Brisbane in 1970-71, but that innings actually included nine boundaries, which was mistakenly reported somewhere as none - so I apologise (especially to the much-maligned Bill!) if I have ever written that in this column. The slowest century in a Test was scored by Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan, who took 557 minutes to reach three figures against England in Lahore in 1977-78.
Kamran Akmal made four stumpings in a match during the World Twenty20. Has anyone else done this, in any international match? asked Faisal NadeemKamran Akmal's four stumpings against Netherlands at Lord's last week was a new record for Twenty20 internationals. Akmal also set the previous record, of three, against Kenya in Nairobi in 2007-08. That mark was equalled by Zimbabwe's Tatenda Taibu against Canada in King City in 2008-09. The one-day international record is three, which has happened 13 times now (click here for a list). In Tests the record for stumpings in an innings (five) and a match (six) were both set by India's Kiran More, against West Indies in Madras (now Chennai) in 1987-88.
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