India bundled out South Africa for 191 runs on the fifth and final day to win the Test series opener by 203 runs in Vizag on Sunday, 6 October.
Defending a 395-run target, India rode on Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami's bowling effort to register the win as it took a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series and extended it’s lead in the World Test Championships.
Shami took five wickets while Jadeja scalped four and Ravichandran Ashwin took one to equal Sri Lankan great Muttiah Muralitharan in becoming the joint-fastest to take 350 wickets. Resuming at 11 for one, South Africa were reduced to 117 for 8 at lunch. In the post-lunch session, the Proteas lost the remaining two wickets to finish at 191 in 63.5 overs.
Here’s a look at all the big numbers and records from Day 5 of the India vs South Africa Vizag Test.
- India have won 13 Tests when their opponent totalled 400 or more in the first innings.
- India's 203-run triumph is their third-biggest in terms of runs over South Africa; behind the 337-run win at Delhi in December 2015 and by 280 runs at Kanpur in December 1996.
- India have won three Tests in a row for the first time against South Africa at home – Nagpur and Delhi in 2015 and Visakhapatnam in 2019.
- South Africa's loss by 203 runs is their biggest in terms of runs in Tests when they scored 400 or more in the first innings.
- For the fifth time, South Africa have lost a Test after scoring 400 in the first innings.
- Rohit Sharma (176 & 127) has received his second Man of the Match award in Tests – the first being on Test debut (177) against West Indies at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 2013.
- Ravichandran Ashwin, with 350 wickets in 66 Tests, has emulated Muttiah Muralitharan's record. Both share a record for taking least number of Tests (66) to 350 wickets.
- Dane Piedt has recorded his maiden Test half-century. He became the second South African batsman at number 10 or below to register a fifty against India in India in Tests, joining Andy Roberts (68 at Kolkata in December 1983).
- The 37 sixes in this Test – 27 by India and 10 by South Africa – are the most in a Test match, eclipsing the 35 in the 2014-15 Sharjah Test between New Zealand and Pakistan.
Mohd Shami’s 5-Wicket Haul
- Mohammed Shami has become the fifth Indian pacer to produce a five-wicket haul in the fourth innings – the first four being Karsan Ghavri (1977), Kapil Dev (1981), Madan Lal (1981) and Javagal Srinath (1996).
- Shami's second five-wicket haul (5/35) against South Africa is his fifth in Tests – his best against them being 5 for 28 at Johannesburg in January 2018. Of his five instances of five wickets or more in an innings, three have been recorded by Shami in a winning cause (twice against South Africa) and once against the West Indies.
- Since January 2018, Shami has produced three instances of five-wicket hauls in the third or fourth innings in Tests – the most by a bowler during this period.
Muthusamy’s Record-Setting Debut
- Senuran Muthusamy (33* off 106 balls and 49* off 108 balls) became the third number 7 batsman or lower, to face 100 balls or more in each innings of a Test match on debut.
- Muthusamy is the fourth batsman to register two unbeaten innings of 30-plus on Test debut, joining Australia's Albert Trott vs England at Adelaide in 1895, West Indian Jackie Grant vs Australia at Adelaide in 1930 and Pakistan's Azhar Mahmood vs South Africa at Rawalpindi in October 1997.
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