Statistical Highlights
From Mohandas Menon, Port Elizabeth
Statistical highlights for the second Test (2nd day)
Herschelle Gibbs' 196 was the highest individual score made at this
ground. He bettered the previous highest score of 174 made by teammate Lance
Klusener against England in December 1999. Gibbs, meanwhile also bettered
the previous highest score made by an opening batsman at this ground, which
was the 157 by Australian Arthur Morris in March 1950.
Incidentally, Gibbs' 196 was the highest score made by a South African
batsman not scoring a double hundred. The previous highest such score was
the unbeaten 189 by Bruce Mitchell (v England at the Oval in August 1947)
and Jacques Kallis (v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in September 2001).
The 80 run partnership between Gibbs and Mark Boucher fell just short of
the record for the seventh wicket at this venue, which still remains as the
89 between Englishmen Arthur Hill and Sammy Woods way back in February 1896.
Boucher's unbeaten 68 was the highest score made by a South African
keeper against India bettering the 50 by Dave Richardson at Johannesburg in
November 1992.
Javagal Srinath's six wickets has taken his tally of wickets on South
African soil to 41 in eight matches. Now only England's pace bowler Syd
Barnes (49 wickets in 4 matches in 1913-14) and Australian leg-spinner
Clarrie Grimmett (44 wickets in 5 matches in 1935-36) among visiting bowlers
have more wickets than Srinath on South African soil.
The wicket of Tendulkar was Shaun Pollock's 250th of his career in his
60th match. He becomes the second South African after Allan Donald (325
wickets in 69 matches) and the 24th bowler in Test history to do so.
For the sixth time in his career Pollock has had the distinction of
capturing the wicket of Ganguly. Ganguly now joins England's Mike Atherton,
Mark Butcher, West Indian Daren Ganga and Sri Lankan Marvan Atapattu to
become a six time victim of the South African captain.
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