- South Africa Jacques Kallis completed his 1,000 runs in Test matches in the calendar year 2004 -- in his ninth Test and 16th innings.
- A total of 10 batsmen -- West Indians Brian Lara, Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan, Sri Lankans Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara, Australians Damien Martyn, Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer and India's Virender Sehwag -- have aggregated 1,000 runs in 2004. Never before in the history of Test cricket, have so many batsmen aggregated 1,000 or more runs in a calendar year. The previous record was of a maximum of six batsmen performing this feat in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
- Kallis also became only the second South African batsman after Herschelle Gibbs to aggregate 1,000 runs in a calendar year on two separate occasions (Kallis had also aggregated 1,120 runs in 13 Tests in 2001). Gibbs had performed the feat in 2001 and 2003.
- The dismissal of Kallis was only the second 'bowled' dismissal for Sourav Ganguly. Out of the 25 wickets taken by Ganguly so far, 10 victims are caught behind, 7 caught in the field and 6 leg before wicket decisions. The only batsman (other than Kallis) bowled by Ganguly was Australia's Mark Waugh in Sydney Test in 1999-00.
- The wicket of Shaun Pollock was the 61st for Anil Kumble in the year 2004. With this, he equalled England fast bowler Steve Harmison's tally to become the joint highest wicket-taker in 2004.
- Dinesh Karthik became the second Indian wicketkeeper to take four catches in an innings against South Africa after Nayan Mongia who did so twice -- 5 catches in the first innings of the Durban Test in 1996-97 and 4 in the first innings of the Cape Town Test in the same series.
- The unbroken second wicket partnership of 112 runs between Sehwag and Dravid is India's best against South Africa in India obliterating the 76 between the same pair in the previous Test at Kanpur.
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