Stats: India vs South Africa, Delhi Test Day 4 - Amla, de Villiers Long Walk Towards Draw
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.