Middlesexs title decider is being played this week. Has there ever been first-class cricket at Lords this late in the year? asked Bob Rollins from England For many years the cricket season on the main ground at Lords would finish with the Gillette Cup (later NatWest Trophy) final, which was held on the first Saturday in September. That tradition has slipped a little in recent years, but it turns out that this weeks County Championship match between top-of-the-table Middlesex and second-placed Yorkshire is indeed the latest that top-class cricket has ever been played on the worlds most famous ground. At first I thought the previous-latest first-class action there was a splendid match between Smokers and Non-Smokers in 1884 - it was played on September 15-16 - but ten years after that, in 1894, the game between Gentlemen of the South and Players of the South ran from September 17-19. Two major matches in recent years have been played later than that: in 2010 there was a one-day international between England and Pakistan at Lords on September 20, while in 2013 the Yorkshire Bank 40 final (the successor to the Gillette) tk place on September 21. The latest Championship action at Lords before this year was also in 2013, when Middlesexs four-day game against Nottinghamshire finished on September 14.Who has played the most Test matches without ever playing at home? asked Ian Johnston from England A couple of old-time England players lead the way here. The Yorkshire allrounder Willie Bates played 15 Tests on four separate tours of Australia in the 1880s, but never appeared at home. In those days the sides for Englands overseas tours were raised privately, rather than by a central selection committee, while teams for home Tests were usually chosen by representatives of the ground staging the match. Frederick Fane, the Irish-born Essex amateur, played 14 Tests for England - and captained them in five, including three matches of the 1907-08 Ashes - but never played at home. And the Rhodesian allrounder Percy Mansell played 13 Tests in the 1950s, all of them outside South Africa. This excludes several current Pakistan players who have been unable to play at home for security reasons. Azhar Ali has now played 49 Tests but none in Pakistan, and Asad Shafiq 45. They have, however, played several home Tests in the United Arab Emirates.Whos the only man to play more than 100 international matches at the same ground? asked Khalid Zafar from Pakistan The answer here was quite a surprise: there is indeed only one man who has played 100 international matches (in all three formats) on one ground - Mushfiqur Rahim, who has played 105 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. Shakib Al Hasan has played 97 games there, and Tamim Iqbal 93. Next comes Hamilton Masakadza, with 91 at the Harare Sports Club, where Elton Chigumbura has played 89. The Test record is held by Mahela Jayawardene, who played 27 matches at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo, where Muttiah Muralitharan played 24. Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara both played 23 Tests at Galle. Alastair Ck has played 22 Tests so far at Lords. Wasim Akram leads the way for one-day internationals, with 77 at Sharjah; Mushfiqur has so far had 73 at Mirpur, while Jayawardene and Sanath Jayasuriya both played 71 ODIs at Colombos Premadasa Stadium. Rahim has played 19 Twenty20 internationals at Mirpur, and Umar Akmal 18 in Dubai. Who had the most runs after playing 100 Tests? asked Keshuv Huria from India Top of this list is Brian Lara, who amassed 8916 runs in his first 100 Tests. Its quite close, though - nine others had more than 8000 runs, plus Garry Sobers who scored 8032 in a career of 93 Tests. Second behind Lara is Kumar Sangakkara, with 8651 runs, then come Younis Khan (8640), Rahul Dravid (8553), Matthew Hayden (850, Virender Sehwag (8487), Sunil Gavaskar (8479), Sachin Tendulkar (8405), Ricky Ponting (8253) and Graeme Smith (8173). Of these Tendulkar had the highest average, with 57.97, just ahead of Dravid (57.79) and Ponting (57.71).I see that Sir Viv Richards has one stumping to his credit in first-class cricket - who was this? asked Jogeshwar from IndiaSir Vivian Richardss only stumping in first-class cricket came quite early in his career, in a festival game at the end of West Indies 1976 tour of England. Playing against T. N. Pearces XI in the last match of the tour at Scarborough, at some point in the second innings Richards relieved Mike Findlay of the gloves, and stumped the Pearces XI No. 8 Martin Vernon off the bowling of slow left-armer Raphick Jumadeen. 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Lancashire 14 for 0 trail Warwickshire 219 (Hain 52, Bailey 4-52) by 205 runsScorecardLancashires bowlers piled the pressure on Warwickshire on the opening day of their County Championship relegation battle at Edgbaston.With Hampshire making strong progress at The Ageas Bowl, it lks increasingly likely that whichever side loses this match will go down. And Warwickshire are lking vulnerable after they were bowled out for 219, taking just a single batting point.They are far from out of the game - the ball has swung and there is some assistance for the spinners. But Lancashire completed their solid days work by reaching 14 without loss at the close and three days after the euphoria of their Royal London Cup triumph at Lords, Warwickshires supporters were left anxious by another patchy days work from their team. Lancashire owe their ascendancy to bowling of sustained accuracy, led by Tom Bailey and Jordan Clark. Only Sam Hain reached 50 and, as the bowlers maintained the pressure, no partnership got that far.Lancashire chose to bowl and started perfectly when Ian Westwd was lbw to Baileys fourth ball.Alex Mellor and Jonathan Trott added 44 and, after Mellor edged Bailey to first slip, Trott and Ian Bell put on 37.dddddddddddd But Clarks dismissal of Trott, edging an outswinger just before lunch, set the tone of the day - Lancashire regularly striking just as a partnership seemed to take rt. Having made 83 for 3 in the first session, Warwickshire made 82 for 3 in the second. Bell was lbw to Kyle Jarvis, then four balls later came a needless run out. Hain called for a tight single which Tim Ambrose failed to make as Jarvis landed a direct-hit from mid-off.Hain and Rikki Clarke eked 37 from 15 overs before Clarke was lbw, pulling, to Clark. Hain and Keith Barker defied to add 40, then both fell in the space of ten balls.Hains 152-minute resistance ended when Luke Procter won the fourth lbw decision of the innings. Barker was bowled by the impressive Clark.Jeetan Patel and Chris Wright saw their side to a batting point but Wright feathered an attempted pull at Bailey who rounded off the innings when Patel lofted a catch to deep cover.Lancashires young openers Rob Jones and Haseeb Hameed, reached the close unparted, though the latter was dropped on 2 by Clarke at second slip off Barker. ' ' '