Approaching milestones in India - South Africa Test series

Batting:

·         Jacques Kallis [ Images ] needs 33 runs to complete 6,000 runs in Test cricket

·         Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] needs 52 runs to complete 1,000 runs against South Africa [ Images ]. He will become the first Indian to do so.

·         Shaun Pollock [ Images ] needs 68 runs to complete 3,000 runs in Tests. He will also complete a grand allround double of 3,000 runs & 300 wickets

·         Virender Sehwag [ Images ] needs 144 runs to complete 1,000 runs in Tests in the year 2004

·         Rahul Dravid [ Images ] needs 171 runs to complete 3,000 runs in 'home' Tests

·         Graeme Smith [ Images ] needs 256 runs to complete 2,000 runs as South African captain

·         VVS Laxman [ Images ] needs 293 runs to complete 4,000 runs in Tests

·         Sourav Ganguly [ Images ] needs 355 runs to complete 5,000 runs in Tests

·         One more century and Tendulkar will…

a) equal Sunil Gavaskar's [ Images ] world record of 34 centuries

b) equal Sunil Gavaskar's world record of 16 centuries at home

c) equal Mohammad Azharuddin's [ Images ] record of most centuries (4) against South Africa by any Indian.

Bowling:

·         Shaun Pollock needs one wicket to complete his 350 wickets in Tests

·         Zaheer Khan [ Images ] needs 7 wickets to complete his 100 wickets in Tests

·         Anil Kumble [ Images ] needs 9 wickets to become leading wicket-taker for India [ Images ] against South Africa surpassing Javagal Srinath's tally of 64 wickets

Anil Kumble needs 11 wickets to become leading wicket-taker for India in all Tests surpassing Kapil Dev's [ Images ] tally of 434 wickets