How many times has Ricky Ponting got out to Ishant Sharma in Tests - and who has got Ponting out most often?
By the end of the Mohali Test, Ishant Sharma had dismissed Ricky Ponting on six occasions, from only eight matches in which they had played against each other. Ponting has an average of 15.50 in those innings. Only three bowlers have got Ponting out more often than that, and two of them are Indians: Anil Kumble dismissed him seven times (in 17 Tests), Darren Gough eight times (in nine), while Harbhajan Singh has so far claimed his wicket on 10 occasions in the 13 Tests in which they have opposed each other.
By the end of the Mohali Test, Ishant Sharma had dismissed Ricky Ponting on six occasions, from only eight matches in which they had played against each other. Ponting has an average of 15.50 in those innings. Only three bowlers have got Ponting out more often than that, and two of them are Indians: Anil Kumble dismissed him seven times (in 17 Tests), Darren Gough eight times (in nine), while Harbhajan Singh has so far claimed his wicket on 10 occasions in the 13 Tests in which they have opposed each other.
Sourav Ganguly averaged 66 in Tests when he batted at No. 4. Is this the best average for that position, given a minimum of 1000 runs scored there?
Sourav Ganguly's average of 66.00 from 20 innings at No. 4 is indeed the highest average there in Tests, given your qualification of 1000 runs (he scored 1188). Five others have averaged more than 60 at No. 4:Garry Sobers made 1530 runs at 63.75 there, Everton Weekes 3372 at 63.62, and Graeme Pollock 2065 at 62.57, plus the current players Jacques Kallis (7183 at 62.46) and Mahela Jayawardene (7570 at 60.07). The most Test runs scored at No. 4 is 11,629 (at an average of 57.85) by Sachin Tendulkar (before the Mohali Test against Australia).
Sourav Ganguly's average of 66.00 from 20 innings at No. 4 is indeed the highest average there in Tests, given your qualification of 1000 runs (he scored 1188). Five others have averaged more than 60 at No. 4:Garry Sobers made 1530 runs at 63.75 there, Everton Weekes 3372 at 63.62, and Graeme Pollock 2065 at 62.57, plus the current players Jacques Kallis (7183 at 62.46) and Mahela Jayawardene (7570 at 60.07). The most Test runs scored at No. 4 is 11,629 (at an average of 57.85) by Sachin Tendulkar (before the Mohali Test against Australia).
I have just watched Isuru Udana take a hat-trick despite bowling only two legal deliveries - has this feat ever happened previously?
The Sri Lankan left-armer Isuru Udana managed this while bowling for Wayamba in their Champions League Twenty20 match against Central Districts in Port Elizabeth last week: the key point is that the second victim, Mathew Sinclair, was stumped off a wide. Udana had already persuaded Brad Patton to sky a catch to the wicketkeeper, Kushal Perera, and then after Sinclair's unusual dismissal, George Worker was bowled by his first ball. As far as I can see, there have been no other hat-tricks in senior cricket that did not come from three legal deliveries. 
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