Stats: India vs South Africa, Delhi Test Day 3 - Captain Virat Kohli's Day
Milestones for Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane with the bat and another splendid bowling display by Morne Morkel with three wickets for South Africa meant that the hosts are 403 runs ahead at the end of day 3 at Feroz Shah Kotla.
The hosts began their second innings on day three and are miles ahead as far as match is concered thanks to Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane’s 133* runs partnership. Both batsmen scored their fifties and India ended a day with score of 190 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
Here are some of the stats from Day 3:
2 - Number of fifties scored by Virat Kohli as a captain of India, it was also his second fifty against South Africa in Tests.
7 - 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.
8 - After eight Innings Virat Kohli has scored a fifty in an innings of a Test match. His last fifty was against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
11 - Number of 50-plus partnerships this series has seen so far- fewest for Test series of 4 or more matches. The previous lowest number was 12 which came in a series between Pakistan and England in 1954.
12th - Number of fifties Virat Kohli has scored in his Test career. He also scored his first fifty of this series and first fifty in his home ground Delhi.
21 - Number of runs Shikhar Dhawan scored on his 30th birthday. Virender Sehwag is the player who had scored highest runs among all Indian batsmen in Tests on his birthday. He had scored 90 runs against Australia on his 30th birthday at Mohali in 2008.
43.60 - Average at which Ajinkya Rahane has scored his runs in this series which is most compared to others.
49th - Number of times when two batsmen made 100+ partnership at Feroz Shah Kotla. Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli’s partnership was the 49th at Kotla.
50 – In last 50 years, Virat Kohli has become the youngest captain to score a fifty or more in an innings in Delhi. He has made this record at the age of 27 years and 30 days.
58 - Number of Runs need to score by Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli to make a new record of highest partnership for 5th wicket. Currently this record is held by Nawab of Patudi and C Borde, both had made 190* runs partnership against England in 1964.
133 – Runs scored by Kohli and Rahane for 5th Wicket- it is the highest partnership in this series so far going past 98 made by Rahane and Ashwin for 8th wicket in first innings of this test match.
218 – Number of runs scored by Ajinkya Rahane in this Test series is the most in the current series. Next to him is South Africa’s AB de Villiers, who has scored 215 runs in this series so far.
518 – India now have the third-most century partnership in Tests. England lead with 984, followed by Australia with 863, India are third with 518, West Indies are fourth with 517.
1000 - Number of Runs runs Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane have added in partnership between them in 21 innings. It is the only Indian pair to achieve this since Ajinkya Rahane’s Test debut.
1999 - VVS Laxman was the previous No.3 batsman to score a golden duck for India in Tests against Australia in 1999. TRohit Sharma got a golden duck at no.3 for India.