Stats: India vs South Africa, Delhi Test - Ajinkya Rahane gets his first 50 plus score at home
89*- The runs Ajinkya Rahane has scored in this innings - the highest for a batsman in this series, surpassing Ab de Villiers’ 85 in Bangalore Test. This is also Rahane’s first 50 plus score in India.
6 - Number of Test Innings in succession for Ajinkya Rahane without fifty-plus scores before this innings - the longest gap between two fifty-plus scores for him. Today he scored 89* runs. In last six innings, 8, 4, 15, 2, 13 and 9 were his scores.
4 - Number of Wickets Dane Piedt has taken in this innings- He has bowled in 3 Test innings so far- and he has taken exactly 4 wickets in previous innings also. Previously, he took 4-90 and 4-62 in a Test against Zimbabwe.
33 - Tests Feroze Shah Kotla Stadium has now hosted including this one- 2nd most number of Matches hosted by an Indian ground and 5th most by an Asian Ground. In India, Eden Gardens Kolkata has hosted 39 Test Matches and Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai is 3rd on the list with 31 matches.
0 - Number of Tests in Delhi where a team winning toss has decided to field first- Delhi has hosted 33 Tests so far but no captain has dared to bat second after winning the toss.
231-7 - The Indian Score at Stumps Day 1- the highest score in this series so far, going past India’s 215 in Nagpur. The lowest highest total for a series of three or more matches is 290 which came in Pak-NZ series in 1969/70.
0 - Number of Individual Centuries this series has seen till date- the only series of four or more matches with no centuries. The earlier minimum number of centuries in a Test Series (4 or more Matches) is 2 (Pak-WI 19080/81 Series).
5 - Number of Half-Centuries scored in this series - easily the least in a series of 4 or more test matches. Previously 11 Half-Centuries in Pakistan’s tour of England in 1954 were the lowest.
18 - batting average during this series- which is the lowest among all series of 4 or more matches- The previous lowest was 19.09 when New Zealand visited England for a 5-match Test Series in 1958.
79 - Wickets have fallen to Spinners in This series- which is the joint 5th most for spinners in a Test series or 4 matches. From the Remaining 33 wickets (in case all innings are bowled out) spinners require 14 more wickets to make it the best 4-match test series for spinners. With 92 Wickets, Border-Gavaskar Series in India in 2012 has most wickets.
1902 - the last time Spinners’ Average in a series of 4 or more matches was under 19- It was the Ashes in 1902 where Spinner’s averaged 16.67. In this series, Spinners’ Average is 15.83 which is conveniently the best for spinners in a series of 4 or more matches.
33 - The Strike Rate for Spinners in this series- which is the best in a series of four or more matches. The Ashes 1902 had previously best strike rate for spinners with 42.5.