Elgar's favourite venue, by far

47 Percentage of his Test runs that Dean Elgar has made at St George's Park in Port Elizabeth. His sequence of scores here read 103*, 83, 16 and 121 - 323 runs at an average of 107.66. At all the other grounds he has scored 362 runs in 17 innings at an average of 22.62.

- Also, the opening partnership between Elgar and Alviro Petersen, which is South Africa's highest for the first wicket here since 2001. In 12 partnerships during this period, they've managed only 195 runs at an average stand of 16.25.

3 The number of South African openers who've scored Test hundreds in Port Elizabeth. The only others, apart from Elgar, are Herschelle Gibbs (196 against India in 2001), and Barry Richards (126 against Australia in 1970).

179 The partnership between Elgar and Faf du Plessis, which is the second-highest by any pair at this ground and the best for South Africa. In 1950, Neil Harvey and Arthur Morris had added 187 for the third wicket. The previous-best for South Africa here was 157, between Barry Richards and Eddie Barlow against Australia in 1970.

4 The number of century partnerships between Elgar and de Plessis in Tests. Elgar does not have century stands with any other batsman in his 14-Test career so far.

685 The partnership runs in ten innings between Elgar and du Plessis, at an average of 68.50 runs per partnership. It's also Elgar's Test aggregate so far.

54.03 The average second-wicket partnership for South Africa in Tests since the beginning of 2008, the best among all teams. In 108 innings, they have 15 century stands.

5 Number of 50-plus scores for de Plessis in 14 Test innings in 2014. He hasn't converted any of them into hundreds, though; a couple of innings ago, he was dismissed for 98 against Zimbabwe in Harare.

2-3 South Africa's win-loss record in their last five Tests in Port Elizabeth. They beat Australia and New Zealand, but lost to West Indies, England and Pakistan.