Elgar's productive run, South Africa's crawl

2005 Last time before this an overseas opener hit a hundred in the first innings of a series in New Zealand. Marvan Atapattu had made 127 in the Napier Test in Sri Lanka's first innings of that series. The previous South Africa opener to do this was Gary Kirsten who made 128 in Auckland in 1998-99.

391 Runs made by Elgar in his last five Test innings including two hundreds and two fifties. Elgar had recently made his highest Test score of 129 in Cape Town, against Sri Lanka. Elgar has converted seven of his 12 fifty-plus scores to hundreds in Tests.

2.54 South Africa's scoring rate on the first day of the Test - the lowest on the first day of a Test in New Zealand in the last ten years when at least 40 overs have been bowled. Overall, there have been only 12 occasions when runs have been scored at a slower pace on the first day of any Test in the last ten years.

2 Man-of-the-Match awards won by Tim Southee in New Zealand's previous three Tests. He had taken 19 wickets at an average of 24.94 in New Zealand's previous three Tests. The hosts chose to play an additional spinner in place of Southee in this Test. Southee has taken 13 wickets at an average of 42.69 at the University Oval in Dunedin and had figures of 0 for 140 from 36 overs in his previous Test against South Africa at this venue. In his previous match against the visitors in Centurion, Southee had returned figures of 4 for 160 from 51 overs.

2011 Last time a team winning the toss chose to bat in Tests in New Zealand. Daniel Vettori had opted to bat against Pakistan in Wellington in the second Test of the 2010-11 series. Since then, this was the first time in 23 matches that the captain winning the toss has chosen to bat in Tests in New Zealand.

42 Overs by New Zealand spinners on the first day of this Test - the most bowled by spinners on the first day of any Test in New Zealand since 2006. The most before this was the 39 overs sent down by Shane Shillingford and Narsingh Deonarine on the first day of the Wellington Test in 2013-14.

22/3 South Africa's score when Faf du Plessis joined Dean Elgar at the crease. This is the second-lowest score from which a fourth-wicket stand has added 100 or more runs in Tests in New Zealand. Adrian Griffith and Brian Lara had a century stand from 17 for 3 in Wellington in 1999, which is the only instance when a fourth-wicket century stand has come from a lower score in Tests in New Zealand.