Stats highlights from the first day’s play between India and South Africa in Bangalore where AB de Villiers fell 15 short of a century in his 100th Test
Shiva Jayaraman14-Nov-20158 Number of times R Ashwin has picked up at least four wickets in an innings in Tests in 2015 including his 4 for 70 in this match. This is the most such hauls by any bowler in 2015. Yasir Shah is next on this list with seven such hauls this year. Ashwin has taken at least one such haul in each of the seven Tests he has played in 2015.592 Runs by AB de Villiers in international matches on South Africa’s current tour – the most any batsman from either side has made from the ten games played. His 85 in South Africa’s first innings was his sixth score of fifty or more runs. De Villiers has made three hundreds and three fifties and has averaged 65.77. The next highest is by Rohit Sharma, who has made 383 runs at 54.71.51 Wickets by Ravindra Jadeja in just 13 first-class innings this season including his four in South Africa’s innings in this Test. This equals the most he has taken in any season in first-class cricket. He had taken exactly 51 wickets in 2012-13. However, Jadeja’s bowling average of 11.54 of 2015-16 is his best in any season.1029 Runs made by de Villiers against India in Tests. He passed 1000 runs during his innings of 85 in this innings. De Villiers is the third South Africa batsman after Jacques Kallis and Amla to score 1000-plus runs against India. De Villiers has made three hundreds and four fifties against India in Tests and averages 42.87.1974 The last time a captain winning the toss in Bangalore chose to field before Virat Kohli in this Test. In each of the 19 Tests after that and before the current one, teams winning the toss had batted first. In fact, this was only the 20th time in 246 Tests in India that a team had opted to field. This is also only the second time in 39 Tests in India since 2007 that a captain has opted to field. MS Dhoni had chosen to field against West Indies in the last Test of the series in 2013-14.55.50 De Villiers’ average against spinners on this tour; he has scored at a strike rate of 93.27 against them and has been dismissed six times in 357 balls. In contrast, the other South Africa batsmen have averaged 19.90 against the India spinners and have conceded 43 wickets off 1290 balls. De Villiers had made 44 runs off 62 deliveries in this innings before being dismissed by Jadeja.2009 The last time South Africa played a Test without Dale Steyn in the team, which was against England in Centurion. Since then Steyn had played in each of the 48 Tests South Africa had played before this match.2000 The last time a team batting first in a Test in Bangalore posted a total lower than the 214 by South Africa in their innings. On that occasion, India had been on the receiving end against the same opposition, and had been bowled out for 158. Since then, this is the first time in eight Tests that a team has failed to post at least 300 runs in the first innings.2 Wickets by Ashwin in the eighth over of South Africa’s innings; he got Stian Van Zyl and Faf du Plessis out in what was his first over in the match. This was the earliest a spinner had dismissed two or more batsmen in an over in the first innings of any Test since 2002. The earliest before this was the 15th over in the first innings of the Guyana Test in 2003 when Brad Hogg got the wickets of Wavell Hinds and Marlon Samuels in the same over.490.00 Hashim Amla’s batting average in his previous Test series in India; in three innings in this series he has managed just 50 runs. In international matches in India before this tour, he had made 1192 runs at 79.46 including five hundreds and four fifties from 17 innings. However, ten innings on this tour have produced just 177 runs at 17.70 and a highest of 43.0 Number of fifty-plus opening stands for India in eight Test innings before the unbeaten 80-run stand between Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay in this Test. The last time their openers had added 50-plus runs in an innings was against Bangladesh in Fatullah earlier this year where the same pair had added 283 runs. Since then India had managed only 44 runs in eight innings with a highest partnership of 14.
