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Number crunching: Ashwin overtakes Broad

November 27, 2015 23:56 IST

India beat South Africa by 124 runs in the third Test in Nagpur,inside three days, to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series on Friday.

Rajneesh Gupta presents interesting numbers from day three of Nagpur Test.

India's captain Virat Kohli (centre) along with his teammates Cheteshwar Pujara (left) and Rohit Sharma appeal unsuccessfully for the wicket of South Africa's Faf du Plessis.

IMAGE: India's captain Virat Kohli (centre) along with his teammates Cheteshwar Pujara (left) and Rohit Sharma appeal unsuccessfully for the wicket of South Africa's Faf du Plessis. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

652 Runs scored in the match – second lowest in a match in India (where all 40 wickets fell). Only Wankhede Test between India and Australia in 2004-05 saw a lower match aggregate – 605.

264 Runs scored by South Africa in the match – the lowest they have managed while losing 20 wickets since their re-admission in international cricket. The previous lowest was 292 against Australia at Johannesburg in 2001-02

55 Number of wickets taken by Ashwin in Tests in the year 2015 – most by any bowler. He went ahead of England’s Stuart Broad’s tally of 51 wickets. The last Indian bowler to take 50 wickets in a calendar year was Harbhajan Singh (63 wickets in 2008).

24 Number of wickets taken by Ravi Ashwin in the series – most by any bowler in a series between India and South Africa. The previous record was 21 by Dale Steyn in 2010-11

15 Number of away series after which South Africa finally suffered a loss. Their last defeat in an away series came in Sri Lanka in 2006 when they lost 0-2. Since then South Africa had remained undefeated in all away series, winning 10 and drawing remaining five.

12 for 98 – Ravi Ashwin’s match aggregate – best for any bowler in India-South Africa Tests. Allan Donald’s 12 for 139 at Port Elizabeth in 1992-93 was the previous best.

10 Number of times a South African batsman scored 20 or more in the whole series – in five completed innings!

7 This Test provided the seventh instance of not even a single batsman scoring a fifty in a Test where all 40 wickets fell. All other previous instances came in England- Australia Tests. The last such occurrence was at Birmingham in 1981 and before that in 1896 !

5 out of last six Tests on Indian soil have finished in three days. The only one that did not was rain-marred Bangalore Test.

2 Only the second time India beat South Africa in two Tests in a series. The only other instance was in 1996-97 under Sachin Tendulkar.

Rajneesh Gupta