Stats: Steyn claims highest Indian wickets

Virender Sehwag (109) scored his 18th Test hundred in his 75th Test – his fourth in 11 Tests against South Africa.

Sehwag equalled Mohammad Azharuddin's record of scoring maximum (four) hundreds in India-South Africa Tests.

Interestingly, 17 of Sehwag's 18 hundreds have come in India's first innings. He averages 67.09 in the first innings and only 31.22 in the second – a mammoth difference of 35.87!

Subramaniam Badrinath (56) became the 21st Indian to score a fifty in his debut innings.

Badrinath is also only the third Indian batsman to score fifty or more in his first innings while making Test debut against South Africa. The other two are Praveen Amre (103 at Durban in 1992-93) and Virender Sehwag (105 at Bloemfontein in 2001-02). VVS Laxman also registered a fifty (at Ahmedabad in 1996-97) in his debut Test, however that came in the second innings, having scored 11 in the first.

India, from 221/4, were bowled out for 233 – six wickets for 12 runs in 43 balls. This is the worst last-six wickets for India at home. In 1979-80, India were bowled out for 160 after being 146 for four against Pakistan at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium.

Dale Steyn returned his career best figure of 7-51, to become the second South African bowler to claim seven wickets in an innings on Indian soil, after Lance Klusener who had taken 8 for 64 at Kolkata in 1996-97 on debut.

Steyn's figures are also the seventh best by a visiting fast bowler on Indian soil. His previous best against India was 5-23 at Ahmedabad in 2007-08.

Steyn took his tally of wickets in India to 22 from four appearances, maximum for any South African bowler. The previous record was held by Makhaya Ntini with 18 wickets in five Tests.

India suffered the ignominy of following-on, when Graeme Smith asked India to bat again after getting a 325-run first innings lead. It provided the 31st instance of a side enforcing the follow-on on India.

Of these 31 instances 14 have come on Indian soil, while 17 have come away from India.

India have won one, lost 21 and drawn eight of the previous 30 occasions. Of the previous 13 instances on Indian soil, India have won one, lost six and drawn six. Of the 17 such instances on foreign soil, India have lost as many as 15!

England have enforced the follow-on on India on most occasions – 10, followed by West Indies (7), Australia (5), New Zealand (5), Pakistan (2), Sri Lanka (1) and South Africa (1).

This was the first occasion of South Africa enforcing the follow-on upon India. In fact it was the first instance of any side enforcing the follow-on in India-South Africa rivalry.

India lost nine out of 11 previous occasions when they were forced to follow-on after conceding a first innings lead of 300 or more. Seven out of these nine defeats were by an innings margin.

Dhoni is the 19th Indian captain to suffer this fate. Lala Amarnath and Tiger Pataudi share the record of suffering this ignominy on most occasions- six apiece. They are followed by Sunil Gavaskar (3), CK Nayudu, Maharaja of Vizianagram, Vijay Hazare, Ghulam Ahmed, Dattu Gaekwad, GS Ramchand, Ajit Wadekar, Bishan Singh Bedi ,S Venkataraghavan, Kapil Dev, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and Virender Sehwag (one apiece).

Ganguly is the only Indian captain to win a Test match after being forced follow-on.