Australia need their highest fourth-innings total

414 Highest fourth-innings score at the WACA in Tests for any team, by South Africa in 2008-09. Australia's highest here is only 381 which came against New Zealand in 2001-02. They have been set a target of 539 by South Africa this time.

406 Highest fourth-innings total by Australia in Tests - against England at Lord's in 2009. They lost that Test chasing 522. Their highest successful run chase is 404 at Leeds in 1948.

1971 Last time Australia batted more than 140 overs in the fourth innings of a Test - versus England in Adelaide. They have approximately 143 overs to bat in this match and need to score at a run rate of about 3.77 to chase down the target successfully. Only five times have Australia batted more than 140 overs in the fourth innings.

0 Instances of targets more than 500 having been chased in history of Tests. The highest successful run chase by any team is 418 by West Indies against Australia in St John's in 2003-04. Only four targets over 400 have been successfully chased.

309 Margin of defeat for Australia at WACA in their last Test against South Africa, after being set 632 to win. They were all out in 82.5 overs in that innings.

4 Consecutive fifties for Quinton de Kock in Tests. He had made 82 and 50 in the Centurion Test against New Zealand and made 84 and 64 in this Test. He now has five fifty-plus scores in eight Test innings this year. His average of 76 this year is second only to Ajinkya Rahane (84.28) among batsmen playing five or more innings.

4.39 Run rate of South Africa's innings on this fourth day. They added 150 runs in 34.1 overs losing two wickets. They had ended day three at run rate of 3.09 but escalated it to 3.37 at the end of the innings on day four.

2 Instances of David Warner getting run out in Tests, in 102 innings. His first run out dismissal was against Sri Lanka in Hobart in 2012-13.

2 Totals of 500-plus for South Africa in their second innings at the WACA - most for them at any venue. They have had only three more such totals in the second innings, all at different venues. They had scored 569 in the second innings in 2012-13 and won by 309 runs.