SA vs IND: 2nd Test, Day 1, Stats Review: Captain Rahul’s fifty and other stats
Marco Jansen took a back-to-back four-wicket haul as both Kagiso Rabada and Duanne Olivier, who is playing his first Test since 2019, took three wickets each to bundle out India for 202 runs on the first day of the second Test at Johannesburg. KL Rahul, who captained India for the first time in international cricket scored fifty with Ravi Ashwin being the second-highest run-getter in the innings who scored 46 runs.
Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from South Africa vs India, 2nd Test Day 1:
50 – Duanne Olivier completed 50 wickets in Tests.
1 – Ajinkya Rahane recorded the first golden duck of his Test career.
2019 – Duanne Olivier played his first Test since the year 2019.
5 – India won the fifth toss out of the total six Tests played at Johannesburg.
25.96 – Cheteshwar Pujara has the lowest average by a batter at no.3 with a minimum of 10 Test innings since 2020.
7 – Speedster Kagiso Rabada became the seventh South African bowler to reach 150 Test wickets at home.
4 – KL Rahul scored fourth 50 plus score in Tests since 2020. Amongst the Indian openers, Mayank Agarwal and Shubman Gill also have as many scores while Rohit Sharma is on top with six 50 plus scores.
6 – KL Rahul became the sixth player to captain India in a Test at Johannesburg. In the previous five Tests at the venue, India had five different skippers.
8 – Aiden Markram has now recorded eight single-digit scores against India in the last ten innings.
25 – Ajinkya Rahane has now gone 25 innings (including one not out) without a century in Tests.
3 – Mohammed Shami has now got Aiden Markram out in all three innings in this ongoing series.
