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Nagpur Test: Day 3 highlights
Here are the statistical highlights of the third day's play between India and South Africa in the first Test in Nagpur.
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- Updated: February 08, 2010 12:14 PM IST
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India (223) have recorded their lowest completed innings total at VCAS, surpassing the 295 in the second innings against Australia in the only prevous Test played at this venue.
From 221 for four to 233 all-out - India's worst collapse when they lost six wickets for just twelve runs against South Africa.
Sehwag's 18th Test hundred is his fourth against South Africa, equalling Mohammad Azharuddin's tally - the most in India-South Africa Tests.
Sehwag in his last five Tests has posted three hundreds - 131 against Sri Lanka at Kanpur and 293 at Mumbai and 109 against South Africa at Nagpur. In between, he had played two Tests against Bangladesh without a hundred.
Sehwag and Badrinath have produced a stand of 136 - India's highest for the fourth wicket against South Africa in India, surpassing the 96 between Dravid and Ganguly at Kanpur in November 2004.
Sehwag's runs' tally of 283 (ave.70.75) in four innings is the highest by any batsman at VCAS, Jamtha. This is how he has scored - 66 & 92 against Australia in 2008-09 followed by 109 & 16 against South Africa.
Sehwag became the first to register three consecutive innings of fifty-plus at VCAS
Sehwag became the second Indian player after Sachin Tendulkar (109 against Australia) to post a hundred at VCAS, Jamatha
Sehwag has posted 18 centuries in Tests - 10 in India and eight overseas.
Badrinath (56) has become the 21st Indian to register a half-century in debut innings in Tests.
Dale Steyn (16.4-6-51-7) has recorded his career-best bowling figures in Tests, surpassing the 6 for 49 against New Zealand at Centurion in 2007-08.
Apart from the above two instances, the only other occasion when he bagged six wickets in an innings is - 6 for 72 against West Indies at Durban in January 2008.
Fast/Medium-fast bowlers capturing 7 wickets or more in an innings against India in India are:
Wkts. Bowler For Venue Series
8/64 Lance Klusener South Africa Kolkata 1996-97
8/69 Sikander Bakht Pakistan Delhi 1979-80
7/42 Fazal Mahmood Pakistan Lucknow 1952-53
7/43 Ray Lindwall Australia Chennai 1956-57
7/46 John Lever England Delhi 1976-77
7/48 Ian Botham England Mumbai 1979-80
7/51 Dale Steyn South Africa Nagpur 2009-10
7/64 Andy Roberts West Indies Chennai 1974-75
7/67 Geoff Dymock Australia Kanpur 1979-80
7/93 Alan Davidson Australia Kanpur 1959-60
Steyn's outstanding performance is the second best in India-South Africa Tests - the best being Lance Klusener's 8 for 64 at Kolkata in 1996-97.
Besides Klusener and Steyn, the only other to perform the feat for South Africa is Allan Donald - 7 for 84 in the 1992-93 Port Elizabeth Test.
For India, the only one to take seven wickets in an innings against South Africa is Harbhajan Singh - 7 for 87 at Kolkata in 2004-05.
Steyn's previous best figures in an overseas Test were the 5 for 23 against India at Ahmedabad in April 2008..
Steyn's 13th five-wicket haul in Tests is his second against India.
Steyn has taken seven five-wicket hauls in South Africa and six on foreign soil.
Steyn's figures are now the second best at VCAS, Jamtha, next only to Australia's Jason Krejza - 8 for 215 in 2008-09. With four for 143 in the second innings, he became the only spinner to bag twelve wickets in a Test match against India in India.
A follow-on has been enforced by any team for the first time in India-South Africa series.
Here are the statistical highlights of the third day's play between India and South Africa in the first Test in Nagpur.Wkts. Bowler For Venue Series
8/64 Lance Klusener South Africa Kolkata 1996-97
8/69 Sikander Bakht Pakistan Delhi 1979-80
7/42 Fazal Mahmood Pakistan Lucknow 1952-53
7/43 Ray Lindwall Australia Chennai 1956-57
7/46 John Lever England Delhi 1976-77
7/48 Ian Botham England Mumbai 1979-80
7/51 Dale Steyn South Africa Nagpur 2009-10
7/64 Andy Roberts West Indies Chennai 1974-75
7/67 Geoff Dymock Australia Kanpur 1979-80
7/93 Alan Davidson Australia Kanpur 1959-60
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