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Steyn becomes SA's second-highest Test wicket-taker

Stats highlights from the first day of the third Test between South Africa and West Indies in Cape Town

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
02-Jan-2015
Dale Steyn equalled Makhaya Ntini as South Africa's second-highest wicket-taker with his 390th scalp, South Africa v West Indies, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 1st day, January 2, 2015

Dale Steyn moved past Makhaya Ntini on the list of South African bowlers with most Test wickets  •  AFP

391 Test wickets by Dale Steyn, the second best by a South Africa bowler. Only Shaun Pollock, with 421 wickets, has taken more wickets. Steyn went past Makhaya Ntini who has 390 wickets and is 12th on the overall list of highest wicket-takers in Tests.
4 Number of consecutive Tests where South Africa have had at least one player making his debut. Simon Harmer is making his debut in this game. South Africa's debutants in the previous three games have been Temba Bavuma, Stiaan van Zyl and Dane Piedt.
2 Number of times that Kraigg Brathwaite has been dismissed in single figures since the start of 2014. No opening batsman who has scored at least 500 Test runs has been dismissed in single figures less frequently during this period.
5 Years since Shivnarine Chanderpaul has made four consecutive scores of less than 25 in Tests. This happened in 2009 when he returned back-to-back scores of 6, 0, 4 and 23 against England. His scores in the current series are 21, 4, 7 and 9.
1 Number of South African spinners, before Simon Harmer, who - in the last 20 years - had taken three or more wickets in an innings against a top-eight side on debut. Harmer currently has figures of 3 for 67. Paul Harris returned figures of 4 for 129 against India, in 2007, also in Cape Town.
2 Number of times that Chanderpaul has now been stumped in his Test career, with the first in June 2014. He had never been stumped in 20 years of Test cricket prior to that.
1 Number of West Indian batsmen who have been dismissed stumped against South Africa. Chanderpaul became the first when he was stumped on nine off Harmer's bowling.
53 Runs scored by Denesh Ramdin, making it the fourth-highest score by a West Indian wicketkeeper in South Africa. The top three scores were all made by Ridley Jacobs in 1999 and 2003.
5 Number of West Indian batsmen who have made scores between 40 and 60 during the first innings in Cape Town. The only other time this happened was nearly 50 years ago, when five West Indies batsmen made scores in this range against Australia in Port of Spain.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo. @bishen_jeswant