Chanderpaul - 613 deliveries faced, 0 dismissals

13 Number of times West Indies have been asked to follow-on in Tests since 2000. This now equals the most such instances for a team in this period. Bangladesh have also been asked to follow-on 13 times since their admission into Test cricket in 2000.

2 Number of times West Indies have been asked to follow-on by South Africa in Tests including this match. The other instance incidentally came in the previous match between the teams at this venue, in 2004, when West Indies trailed the hosts by 301 runs at the end of the second innings.

72 Runs added by West Indies' opening partnership in their first innings, the highest any overseas opening pair has added in the first innings in South Africa in 14 Tests. The last time an opening stand got higher runs was when Phillip Hughes and Shane Watson added 174 runs in Johannesburg in 2010.

613 Deliveries faced by Shivnarine Chanderpaul before being finally dismissed for the first time in his last-four innings in Tests. He had scored 291 runs in these four innings before getting out to Vernon Philander in West Indies' first innings.

15 Number of innings between the last time Philander took four wickets in an innings and his latest haul. Before this, he had taken 4 for 61 against India in the first innings of the Johannesburg Test last year. Since then, in 15 innings before this one, Philander had taken just 16 wickets at an average of 47.3 and a strike rate of 93.5. In contrast, till the first innings of the Johannesburg Test, he had taken 99 wickets at an average of 17.41 and a strike rate of 38.1. His first 36 innings had produced 13 hauls of four or more wickets.

0 Number of times in 14 innings before this Test that Dale Steyn had gone wicketless for 10 or more overs at this venue. Before this Test, Steyn had taken 42 wickets at this venue at a staggering average of 18.40 and a strike rate of 32.0.

0 Number of times in Test history that the top-four batsmen in an innings had scored between 30 and 35 before this game. West Indies' first innings in this Test was the first time this happened.