Statistical highlights of day five
of the fourth Test between India and South Africa here today:
# With a 3-0 series win, India are now ranked the number two Test side in the world.
# The magnificent 337-run victory over South Africa is India's largest by runs margin in Tests, eclipsing the 320-run win over Australia under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's leadership at Mohali in 2008-09.
# India's previous largest win margin in terms of runs against South Africa was by 280 runs at Kanpur in 1996-97 under the captaincy of Sachin Tendulkar.
# South Africa defeat is their second biggest in terms of runs behind the 530-run defeat to Australia at Melbourne in February 1911.
# India have won consecutive rubbers under Virat Kohli's captaincy - 2-1 against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka in 2015 and 3-0 against South Africa in the Freedom Trophy in India in 2015-16.
# Virat Kohli's success % of 50.00 as captain is the best for India in Tests - his tally being five victories, two losses and three losses. Among the captains with atleast ten Tests, the next best record is by MS Dhoni - 27 wins, 18 defeats and 15 drawn games out of 60 played - winning % 45.00.
# In the last ten years, South Africa have lost three Tests in a series twice - all three Tests vs Australia in South Africa in 2006 and three out of four vs India in India in 2015.
# South Africa have faced 143.1 overs - the most by any team in the fourth innings in a Test innings in Asia.
# South Africa's run rate of 0.99 is the lowest by a team while batting 100 or more overs in an innings - the only instance of a team scoring at less than one run per over after batting for 100 or more overs.
# Ajinkya Rahane's splendid match tally of 227 (127 + 100 not out) is the best by an Indian batsman in a winning cause against South Africa in Tests.
# In a winning cause, Rahane is averaging 40.30 in Tests - his aggregate being 524 in seven Tests, including four centuries, in seven Tests.
# Rahane has justifiably received the Man of the Match award for the first time in Tests.
# Steven Smith's captaincy record in Tests reads as - 12 wins and 6 losses apart from four drawn games out of 22 played - winning % 54.54.
# Australia lost six wickets for 11 runs - 101 for 4 to 112 all out - their joint third-fastest six-wicket collapse. Australia had earned a dubious distinction (an unwanted record) when they lost six wickets for five runs - 244 for four to 249 all out - vs England at Nottingham in June 1953.
# Ajinkya Rahane (52) has posted his third fifty vs Australia - his 11th in Tests. Apart from three fifties, he has also registered a hundred vs Australia in Tests - 147 at Melbourne in December 2014.
# Pujara and Rahane were involved in a stand of 118 - India's highest fifth-wicket partnership vs Australia at Bangalore, obliterating the 93 between Gundappa Viswanath and Yashpal Sharma in September 1979.
# The above partnership is India's second highest fifth wicket stand in Tests at Bangalore behind the 300-run stand between Sourav Ganguly and Yuvraj Singh vs Pakistan in December 2007.
# The above partnership is the first century stand for any wicket in the present series.
# Lokesh Rahul has got his second Man of the Match award in Tests for recording consistent performance - 90 & 51. His first such award was against Sri Lanka for scoring 108 & 2 at Colombo (PSS) in August 2015.
# Josh Hazlewood (6/67) has recorded his best bowling figures in Tests, surpassing the 6 for 70 vs New Zealand at Adelaide in 2015-16.
# Hazlewood's second five-wicket haul vs India is his fifth in Tests. He had first captured a five-wicket haul in Tests vs India at Brisbane in 2014-15.
# Hazlewood's above performance is the joint fifth-best by an Australian fast bowler in Tests on Indian soil - the best being Ray Lindwall's 7 for 43 at Chennai in 1956-57.
# Nathan Lyon's career-best bowling figures of 8 for 50 are the best by an Australian bowler in a losing cause in Tests. In all, his figures are the fifth best in a losing cause in Tests - the best being Kapil Dev's 9 for 83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad in 1983-84.
