Statistical highlights of the fourth day's play of the first Test between India and South Africa in Chennai on Saturday.
# India (627 off 155.1 overs) posted their highest ever total against South Africa, obliterating their 466 in the 2004-05 Kanpur Test.
# India's 627 is now their ninth highest innings total in Test cricket.
# For the first time in an India-South Africa Test, both teams scored more than 500 runs in their first innings.
# India's total is now the sixth highest score against South Africa. Sri Lanka's 756 for 5 at SSC, Colombo, in 2006 is a record by any team against South Africa, followed by West Indies' 747 at St.John's in 2004-05; England's 654 for 5 at Durban in 1938-39; Australia's 652 for 7 at Johannesburg in 2001-02 and Australia's 628 for 8 at Johannesburg in 1996-97.
# Dhoni is without a fifty in his last ten innings.
# McKenzie registered his 15th fifty - his third against India. For the first time in his career, he has recorded three successive innings of 50-plus - 226 against Bangladesh at Chittagong and 94 & 59 not out against India at Chennai.
# By the end of the fourth day's play, 1298 runs have been scored by the two teams (S.Africa 540 + 131/1 and India 627) - a record for the highest match aggregate between the two countries, eclipsing the 1288 for 32 wickets at Cape Town in 1996-97.
# Dravid is now the 12th batsman and the third Indian after Gavaskar (34) and Tendulkar (39) to post 25 hundreds or more in Test cricket.
# Dravid, during his second Test hundred against South Africa, became the third Indian batsman after Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar and the sixth overall in the history of Test cricket to aggregate 10,000 runs. Lara (11953) holds the record for the highest run-aggregate, followed by Tendulkar (11782), Allan Border (11174), Steve Waugh (10927) and Gavaskar (10,122).
# Dravid had completed 10,000 runs in 206 innings, which is now the second fastest in Test annals. Sachin Tendulkar and West Indian Brian Lara took only 195 innings each for accomplishsing the milestone of 10,000 runs.
# Sehwag's outstanding innings of 319 off 304 balls is now the highest individual score by an Indian player, surpassing the 309 off 375 balls, recorded by him against Pakistan at Multan in March 2004.
# Sehwag surpassed another Indian record. His innings contained 198 runs through boundaries (42 fours and five sixes), bettering his own record of 194 (47 fours and one six) during his innings of 254 against Pakistan in the 2005-06 Lahore Test.
# Only England's John Edrich (228 against New Zealand at Leeds in 1965), Australia's Matthew Hayden (218 against Zimbabwe at Perth in 2003) and Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq - (206 against New Zealand at Lahore in May 2002) have recorded more runs than Sehwag through boundaries in an innings.
# The 268-run stand between Sehwag and Dravid is India's second best for the second wicket in Test cricket, next only to the 344 (unbroken) between Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar against West Indies at Kolkata in 1978-79.
# This partnership is now the second best for any wicket at Chepauk, next only to the 316 (3rd wicket) between Gundappa Viswanath and Yashpal Sharma against England in 1981-82.
# Paul Harris (53.1-6-203-3) became the second South African to concede 200 runs or more in a Test innings. Nicky Boje's bowling analysis against Sri Lanka at SSC, Colombo, in 2006 were 65-5-221-0. On Indian soil, he holds an unwanted record for conceding most runs in an innings.
# Dale Steyn (4/103), for the second time, has claimed 4 wickets in an innings against India. In the 2006-07 Cape Town Test, he had captured 4 for 30.
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