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481- The target set by India against South Africa in today’s game. This is their highest target against South Africa and overall 5th highest. Interestingly, all the five highest targets set by India have come in last 10 years.
81- Number of Instances now when a player scored twin hundreds in Test Cricket. Ajinkya Rahane’s twin hundred is the 8th such instance for the Indian team. Before Rahane, Gavaskar (thrice), Dravid (twice), Hazare and Kohli are the other Indian players to make hundreds in each innings of a test match.
227- Runs Scored By Ajinkya Rahane in this match. Fourth most by a player in India while batting at 5 or lower. Only Andy Flower’s 287 and 253, and Laxman’s 259 stand above Rahane’s total in this match.
0- Number of players before Rahane to score twin hundreds in a test match in India batting at 5 or lower. Andy Flower had come close to scoring twin hundreds when he scored 183* and 70 at Delhi in November 2000.
2- Number of Indian Players to score before Rahane to score 75 runs or more in each innings of a test match batting at 5 or lower position. VVS Laxman scored 76 and 124* vs NZ at Napier in 2009 while Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi scored 75 and 85 vs Australia at Melbourne in 1967.
7- Sixes hit by Ajinkya Rahane in this match. In the previous 21 Test matches, he had struck 5 sixes. Interestingly, 10 out his 12 test career sixes have come against South Africa.
154- Runs Collected by Rahane and Kohli for 5th Wicket in India’s 2nd Innings which is 2nd highest stand for 5th Wicket for any pair in a Test match at Delhi. Chandu Borde and Nawab of Pataudi had gathered 190* runs for 5th wicket vs England in 1964 at the same ground.
7- Number of fifth-wicket partnerships in excess of 150 for India in 2nd Innings of Tests. Kohli's and Rahane’s 154 run-stand in this game is the sixth highest fifth-wicket partnership for India in 2nd innings of a test match.
1- Number of sessions in the series when Indian bowlers have gone wicketless in this series. 2nd session of today’s game was the only session in this series when no South African player lost his wicket.
1.13- The run rate with which Amla and Bavuma collected 44 runs for the 2nd wicket. It is the slowest 35-plus runs partnership in test history (where ball-by-ball data is available). The previous slowest also had been of a South African pair when Jacques Kallis and Jacques Rudolph made 51 vs West Indies in 2005.
40- Runs made by South Africa in first 40 overs. 2nd least by any team till the conclusion of 40 overs. The least is 39 made by Bangladesh vs New Zealand in 2008 at Chittagong, which featured the slowest 30-plus partnership in test history, between Rajin Saleh and Tamim Iqbal.
49- Runs Made by South Africa in first 50 Overs- lowest by any team in first fifty overs of a Test innings. The previous least was made by South Africa vs West Indies in 2005 in the match where Rudolph and Kallis had the 2nd-slowest 40-plus partnership (discussed above).
319- Balls taken by South Africa to register their 50 runs in this innings. This is the slowest test fifty for a team. The previous slowest had come off 261 balls – by Bangladesh vs New Zealand.
72- Runs made South Africa today. Also, the number of overs Indian bowlers bowled in today’s game.
6- Runs Made by Hashim Amla till tea, after facing 113 balls, which is the 2nd least for a batsman facing 100-plus balls. The least JT Murray who scored 3 off exactly 100 balls at SCG in 1963.
539- Balls faced by Hashim Amla in this series – most by any batsmen in this series going past 516 faced by Ajinkya Rahane. Amla has scored 116 runs while Ajinkya scored 266 runs in this series.
11.11- The strike rate of Hashim Amla – till 150 balls, which is the 3rd lowest for a batsman with 150 or more balls.
11.42- The strike rate of Hashim Amla when he had faced 175 balls – the lowest for a batsman who had faced 175 or more balls.
22- Runs scored by Hashim Amla by the time he faced 200 balls in this innings – which is the least made by a batsman in a test innings after facing 200 or more balls.
7- Runs made by AB de Villiers off first 78 balls in this innings. In the first innings, he scored 42 off 78 balls.
0.78- The run-rate for the unbeaten 23-run partnership between Amla and de Villiers which is the lowest among all partnerships came off at least 175 balls. Their partnership is now 23 off 176 balls. The previous slowest partnership also featured de Villiers as one partner while Abbott at the other, wherein 27 runs came off 177 balls at 0.91 rpo.
