The longest wait for a century stand

115 Partnerships in this series before Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane came together and added the first century stand of the series, the most in any series before the first century stand. The previous highest was 112, in the 1965 series between England and South Africa: Ken Barrington and Colin Cowdrey added added 135 at The Oval, and that was the 113th partnership of the series. Among all Test series where there have been 115 or more partnerships, the only other series with just one century partnership was between India and New Zealand, also in India, in 1969-70.

1999 The last time, before Rohit Sharma's zero today, that an India No.3 batsman got a golden duck in Tests - VVS Laxman against Australia in Adelaide. In 2003-04 in Lahore, Rahul Dravid got a diamond duck, getting run-out without facing a ball. The last such instance for an Indian No.3 batsman in India was also in Delhi, when Raman Lamba fell first ball against West Indies in 1987-88. Overall, it is the 15th instance of an India No.3 batsman getting dismissed for zero facing zero or one ball.

1094 Total partnership runs between Kohli and Rahane in 21 Test innings, at an average of 54.70. Since these two batsmen first batted together in Tests, in December 2013, they are the only Indian pair to aggregate 1000-plus partnership runs. Kohli is also the only batsman with whom Rahane has added more than 500 partnership runs in Tests, while Rahane is the second batsman - after Cheteshwar Pujara - with whom Kohli has added 1000-plus runs in Tests.

1 Higher match aggregates by an Indian batsman batting at No.5 or lower in a Delhi Test than Rahane's tally in this match. The only such instance was Laxman's 259 runs (200 and 59, both unbeaten) against Australia in 2008-09.

5 Consecutive Tests in India, excluding the washed-out match in Bangalore, which did not go past the third day. The sequence started with a Test in Delhi, against Australia in 2013, and is also ending here with this Test against South Africa.

0 Captains younger than Kohli to make a 50-plus score in Tests in Delhi in the last 50 years. Kohli, at the age of 27 years and 30 days, is the youngest captain since Nari Contractor (26 years, 338 days) in 1960-61 to score a half-century at Feroz Shah Kotla. Overall, Kohli is the third-youngest captain to score 50-plus at the venue.

15 Total runs by M Vijay in this match - 12 in the first innings and three in the second, his fourth-lowest match aggregate in Tests where he has batted in both innings. Also, this is only the third Test in which he failed to hit any boundary in either innings.

5 Consecutive innings in which Shikhar Dhawan has scored ten or more. His scores during this period are 45 not out, 12, 39, 33 and 21. This is only the second time he has passed 10 in more than three consecutive innings - his first such sequence was the seven innings from his Test debut.

1987 The last instance of a batsman scoring a century in the third innings of a Test in Delhi - Dilip Vengsarkar made 102 against West Indies. Since then, in the 10 Tests played before this game, there have been no centuries in the third innings. Kohli could break that sequence if he gets 17 more.