Statistical highlights, Day 1

Images from day 1

- Sourav Ganguly [ Images ] lost a toss for the 26th time in his career. He now holds the dubious distinction of losing most tosses by an Indian captain. Ganguly was earlier at level with Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ] with 25 losses.

- Rahul Dravid [ Images ] equalled Sachin Tendulkar's [ Images ] world record of most consecutive Test appearances since debut. Tendulkar had played 84 Test matches on the trot since making his debut against Pakistan in 1989-90.

- Hashim Amla [ Images ], right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, became the first player of Indian origin to play Test cricket for South Africa [ Images ]. Overall, he is the 295th player to make a Test appearance for South Africa.

- Irfan Pathan [ Images ] (3-61) recorded his best bowling figures at home, surpassing his 1 for 38 against Australia [ Images ] at Bangalore last month. In his previous two Tests at home he had claimed only two wickets at an average of 84.00.

- Jacques Kallis [ Images ] (103 not out) scored 17th hundred of his Test career and the first against India [ Images ]. His previous highest against India was 95 at Bangalore in 1999-00.

- This is also Kallis' 100th score of 50 or more in first-class cricket.

- Kallis has now scored Test hundreds against as many as eight countries. The only country against which Kallis has not been able to score a century is Sri Lanka [ Images ]. Kallis thus became the third South African batsman to score hundreds against eight countries after Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs [ Images ]. Kirsten, in fact, is the only South African batsman to have scored hundreds against all other (9) Test playing countries.

- The 109-run partnership for the third wicket between Jacques Rudolph and Kallis is South Africa's best for this wicket in India, obliterating the 85-run partnership between Andrew Hall [ Images ] and Kallis at Kanpur in first Test of this series.