It also happened to be the joint-highest wicket tally on a single day of a Test match in South Africa, alongside the 2011 fixture featuring the hosts and Australia at the same venue. Three of the last four instances - spanning between September 1948 and January 2024 - have come in Cape Town. Never before has a team lost more wickets on a particular score in a Test innings. 8 batters have registered 1,000-plus runs as an opener in Tests against India, Elgar being the latest to do so, finishing with 1012. 5121 runs by Dean Elgar is the fourth most aggregate for South Africa as an opener in Tests, after Graeme Smith's 9018, Gary Kirsten's 5726 and Herschelle Gibbs' 5242.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 03, 2024 17:18 UTC