IMAGE: India's Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates. Photograph: PTI
India’s off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin picked up his 13th five-wicket haul to restrict South Africa to 184 on the second day, in Mohali, on Friday.
PHOTOS: India vs South Africa, Mohali Test, Day Two
AB de Villiers struggled initially but made a swashbuckling 63 off 83 balls to top score for his side, who conceded a first-innings lead of 17.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from Day 2:
- More numbers from the second Test: Day 1
29
Number of Tests taken by Ravichandran Ashwin to complete his 150 wickets – least by any Indian bowler. Erapalli Prasanna and Anil Kumble had taken 34 Tests each to reach this landmark.
16
Number of Tests taken by Ravichandran Ashwin to complete his 100 wickets in India – least by any bowler. Harbhajan Singh –19 – held the previous record.
13
Number of five wicket hauls Ashwin has taken – most by any Indian bowler in his first 29 Tests.
68
Number of overs played by both India and South Africa in their first innings. This provided only the seventh instance in Test history of two sides playing identical overs in their first innings in a Test. India feature in four of them!
23
Number of times AB de Villiers has top-scored in a completed innings. Only Jacques Kallis (25) has top-scored more often for South Africa.
5
Number of Indian openers to bag a pair in a Test. Shikhar Dhawan joins the company of Pankaj Roy, Farokh Engineer, Wasim Jaffer and Virender Sehwag.
1
Shikhar Dhawan became the first player in Test cricket to do both – score a hundred on Test debut and bag a pair in consecutive appearances at a ground.
