Statistical Highlights

Statistical highlights for the first Test (4th and final day)

VVS Laxman since November 2000 has appeared in seven Test matches and 13 innings while scoring 683 runs (avg. 56.92) with 1 hundred and three fifties. He now has 13 double-digit scores in a row. However it is a worrying factor that he has not managed to convert the rest of his nine innings to a bigger score. He has six scores between 38 and 20 during this period, with a highest of 38.

Playing in his 53rd match, Jacques Kallis joined 36 other Test all-rounders who have the distinction of doing the "all-rounders double" of 1000 runs and 100 wickets. He also becomes the third South African, after Trevor Goddard and Shaun Pollock to do so. He acheived this feat when he claimed his 100th wicket that of Tendulkar. With over 3000 runs under his belt, Kallis also joins a select band of seven cricketers, Gary Sobers, Tony Greig, Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Ravi Shastri and Richard Hadlee, who have scored 3000 runs and taken 100 wickets during their career.

Kallis also becomes the fourth all-rounder, after Kapil Dev, Imran Khan and Ravi Shastri to achieve the 3000-runs and 100-wickets double in both the versions of the game - ie in Tests and LOIs. Kallis now has 3429 runs (avg.46.97) and 100 wickets (avg. 28.14) at the end of this Test match.

By claming his 100th wicket Kallis also becomes the seventh South African and 122nd bowler in Test history. However by taking 53 matches to reach this milestone he needed maximum matches for a South African to do so.

With Shaun Pollock taking 10-147 in the match, he becomes the second South African captain after EP Nupen (11-150 v England at Johannesburg, Old Wanderers, December 1930) to take 10 or more wickets in a Test match.

Pollock (6-56) also just failed to better his own best innings figures as captain, which still remains as the 6-30 against Sri Lanka at Cape Town earlier this year in January 2001. His figures against Sri Lanka still remains the best bowling performance by a South African captain in Tests.

Pollock emulates England's Gubby Allen (10-78 at Lord's, June 1936) and Pakistani Imran Khan (11-79 at Karachi, December 1983 and 11-180 at Faisalabad. January 1983) to become the only third Test captain to claim a ten wicket haul against India.

Pollock's 6-56 was the best bowling performance at this ground bettering the 6-66 by Makhaya Ntini against New Zealand in November last year.

With this win, South Africa has now won all the three matches that have been played here since 1999. They had beaten Zimbabwe by an innings and 13 runs in November 1999 and New Zealand by 5 wickets in November last.

Since December 1999, this was India's seventh Test loss overseas although it has won three.

South Africa since losing to India at Kanpur in December 1996, has now won five matches out the six the teams have played each other. It was also South Africa's third win a row against India.

South Africa since November 1998 has an impressive Test record: Played 34, Won 21, Lost 3, Drawn 10.

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