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Statistical Highlights: India vs South Africa

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March 30, 2008 19:21 IST

Statistical highlights at the end of the first Test between India and South Africa at MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Sunday.

# Jacques Kallis, during the course of his innings of 19, became the leading run-getter for South Africa against India - 736 (ave.56.61) in nine Tests, outstripping Gary Kirsten's aggregate of 720 (ave.40.00) in 10 Tests.

# Kallis (13 + 19), for the first time against India, could not register even a score of 20 in both innings of a Test match.

# Neil McKenzie (94 + an unbeaten 155) became the fifth South African batsman to register a ninety and a hundred in the same Test match - he is the first to achieve the feat against India.

# McKenzie's unbeaten 155 off 339 balls is his first century against India - his fourth overall in Tests.

# McKenzie amassed 249 (94 + 155 not out) in the Chennai Test, which is a record for most runs in a Test match for South Africa against India, eclipsing Amla's tally of 240 runs (159 + 81) in the same Test match.

# Hashim Amla's seventh half-century (81 off 148 balls) is his second fifty against India.

# For the first time in a Test match, Amla (159 + 81) has made a hundred and a half-century in the same Test match. 

# Rudra Patap Singh, for the first time in his career, has gone wicket-less in a Test match after conceding over 150 runs - 23-1-111-0 and 9-1-43-0.

# Virender Sehwag (319 + 1/37 & 1/55) became the second all-rounder to post a triple century and claim two wickets or more in a Test match. Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) was the first to accomplish the feat, making 340 and claiming 3 for 45 against India at Colombo, RPS in August 1997.

# Sehwag has been adjudged the man of the match for the fifth time in Test Cricket - his first such award was against South Africa.

# The just concluded Chennai Test match produced 1498 runs (South Africa 540 + 331/5, India  627), which is a record for the highest match aggregate between the two countries, outstripping the 1288-32 wickets in the 1996-97 Cape Town Test - South Africa 529/7 decl. + 256 and India 359 + 1-44).

# The 1498 match aggregate is also a record at Chepauk, surpassing  the 1488-32 wickets registered in the tied Test between Australia (574/7d + 170/5d) and India (397 + 347) in 1986-87.

# South Africa's tally of 871 runs (540 + 331/5) is now a record for most runs in a Test match against India.

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