Cook's century on debut, Amla's 25th

6 Number of South Africa batsmen who have made a hundred on debut in Tests including Stephen Cook. Incidentally, the last one to do it was Stiaan van Zyl, whom Cook replaced as opener in this Test. Van Zyl too had got his maiden hundred in Centurion. Overall, Cook is the 100th batsmen to get a hundred on debut.

3 Number of batsmen older than Cook to make a hundred on debut: Adam Voges (35 years and 242 days), Dave Houghton (35 years and 117 days) and Billy Griffith (33 years and 240 days). Cook is 33 years and 54 days old.

5 Number of batsmen who took fewer innings to make 25 Test hundreds than Hashim Amla, who has taken 155 innings. Don Bradman - the fastest to 25 hundreds - took just 68 innings. Sachin Tendulkar (130), Sunil Gavaskar (138), Matthew Hayden (139) and Garry Sobers (147) were faster than Amla. Click here for a list of batsman to score 25 or more Test hundreds.

1 Number of South Africa batsmen who had made five Test hundreds at a venue before Amla in Centurion. Jacques Kallis made five or more hundreds at three venues: nine in Cape Town, five each in Centurion and Durban. Amla also completed 1000 Test runs at the SuperSport Park during his innings. His average of 87.25 at this venue is the 11th highest for a batsman with 1000-plus runs at a venue. Amla has 1047 runs including five hundreds and four fifties in Centurion.

1 Number of stands for the second wicket at this ground that have added more runs than the one between Cook and Amla in this innings. Alex Doolan and David Warner had added 205 runs against the hosts in 2013-14. South Africa's second-wicket partnership in this match was their highest for that wicket at this venue and the first century stand since Adam Bacher and Brian McMillan added 102 against Australia in 1997. This was also the ninth stand of 200 or more runs by South Africa for any wicket in Centurion.

2012 Last time South Africa had put up a total higher than the 237 in this match before losing their second wicket. That instance too had come against England at the Oval when they lost their second wicket at a score of 260. This is also the first time in 16 innings that South Africa have managed to post 150 or more runs before losing their second wicket. The previous such instance had come against West Indies in the Boxing Day Test in 2014 when the hosts lost their second wicket at a score of 226.

7.66 AB de Villiers' batting average against Stuart Broad in this series. Broad has dismissed him three times in this series including twice for a duck. Overall, this was the tenth time that Broad dismissed de Villiers in Tests - most often any bowler had dismissed him. The South Africa captain averages just 16.30 against Broad.

17 Number of players used by South Africa in this series including Cook, who made his debut in this Test; the last time they played more players in a Test series was also against England, in 2004-05 when they played 18 in the Basil D'Oliveira Trophy.

8 Number of times including this innings, there have been two or more hundreds from South Africa's top three batsmen in an innings in Tests against England. The last such instance had come at the Oval in 2012.

6 Number of South Africa players older than Cook who have made their Test debut since South Africa's readmission to Tests. Cook's father, Jimmy Cook, made his debut in 1992-93 when he was 39 years and 105 days old and is the second oldest players to make his debut for South Africa since 1992. Stephen Cook is the oldest player to open on his debut since his father.