Rahane's twin tons and South Africa's stodgy defence

4 Number of Indian batsmen who have scored centuries in each innings of a Test before Ajinkya Rahane in this match - Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar (thrice), Rahul Dravid (twice) and Virat Kohli. Rahane followed his 127 in the first innings with an unbeaten 100 in the second innings.

8 Number of batsmen, before Rahane, who had scored centuries in each innings of a Test when coming in to bat at No. 5 or lower. Rahane batted at No.5 in the first innings, and at No.6 in the second. Rahane is the first Indian to achieve this feat.

7 Number of sixes hit by Rahane in this match - four in the first innings and three in the second. It is the joint second-highest by an India batsman in a Test. Navjot Sidhu holds the record with eight sixes against Sri Lanka in Lucknow in 1993-94. Rahane is only the second India batsman after Harbhajan Singh to hit three or more sixes in both innings of a Test.

481 Target set by India in this Test; it is their highest against South Africa, going past the 461 they set against them in Kanpur in 1996-97. Against all teams, it is the fifth-highest target India have ever set.

1 South Africa's run rate at the end of the fourth day - they scored 72 in as many overs. It is the second-lowest by any team in a Test innings of at least 50 overs. It is also the slowest by any team against India (with a 50-over cut-off).

72 South Africa's score, which is the fewest runs scored by any team after 72 overs in a Test innings since 2002. The next three lowest scores after 72 overs during this period are also by South Africa: they twice scored 104 - against Sri Lanka in Colombo, and against Australia in Cape Town, both of which happened in 2014 - and also made 105 against West Indies in Georgetown in 2005.

45 Number of dot balls Hashim Amla played before scoring his first run in this innings; it is the second-highest by a South African batsman in Tests. The highest is 46, by Clive Eksteen against New Zealand in Auckland in 1994-95. The overall record is 79 balls by John Murray for England against Australia in Sydney in 1962-63.

11.11 Amla's strike rate in this innings at the end of the fourth day; it is the lowest in any innings in which a batsman has faced 200 or more deliveries.

0.78 The runs scored per over in the 23-run stand between Amla and AB de Villiers; it is the lowest among all partnerships of 175 or more balls (among all partnerships where balls-faced data is available). Amla and de Villiers have added these runs in 176 balls (29.2 overs). Before this partnership, Amla added 44 off 232 balls with Temba Bavuma at a run rate of 1.13, which is the is fourth-lowest. De Villiers features four times in the ten slowest partnerships of 175 or more balls, and also features twice in the ten fastest partnerships of 175-plus balls.

43 Number of maiden overs bowled by India, out of the 72 overs till the end of the fourth day. It is the joint-highest maiden overs in an innings of 72 or fewer overs. There were 43 maiden overs by England bowlers in the fourth innings against West Indies in Birmingham in 1957.