India vs South Africa Tests: Top 5 highest individual scores

#4 Jacques Kallis (201 not out)

Jacques Kallis

The usually defiant Jacques Kallis made an uncharacteristically easygoing double hundred at Centurion in the first Test of the 2010 series played from December 16-20.

It was an innings determined by circumstances. India, batting first after being put in, had crumbled to 136 as Morne Morkel picked up 5 for 20 and Dale Steyn 3 for 34. In response, Kallis walked in at number four with the score reading a healthy 166 for 2, South Africa already in the lead.

The need of the hour was for South Africa to get quick runs and bat India completely out of the game. Kallis responded with an unbeaten 201 from 270 balls, at a strike rate of 74.44 with 15 boundaries and five sixes.

He featured in a 230-run third wicket stand with Hashim Amla who contributed 140. AB de Villiers also helped himself to 129 from 112 balls as South Africa posted a massive 620 for 4 declared.

India replied with a much improved 459 in the second innings, with an unbeaten 111 from Sachin Tendulkar, 90 from MS Dhoni and 80 from Gautam Gambhir. But it was all too late as South Africa won by an innings and 25 runs.