SOUTH AFRICA vs. INDIA SECOND TEST HIGHLIGHTS, CAPE TOWN

South Africa's 55 is the lowest completed total by any side against India. The previous lowest was New Zealand's 62 at Mumbai in 2021-22.
South Africa's total is only the seventh-lowest in the first innings of a Test where a side won the toss and batted.
Mohammad Siraj's 6 for 15 is the fifth best bowling innings analysis for India against South Africa. The other four have all taken seven wickets in the innings with the best being Shardul Thakur's 7 for 61, in 2021-22 at Wanderers.
Siraj's tally is, though, the best in the circumstances above but in the first match innings surpassing Javagal Srinath's 6 for 76 at Port Elizabeth in 2001-02.
The 23 wickets lost on the opening day is the second-most in any Test on the first day behind only the 25 between Australia and England at Melbourne in 1901-02.
For the first time in Test history, a side lost six wickets without scoring a run. India went from 153 for 4 to 153 all out and the closest such occasion was New Zealand losing six wickets for one run (58-3 to 59-9) against Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 1964-65. The worst such collapse from four wickets down was England's 150 all out from 147-4 against Australia at Melbourne in 1990-91. There have now been 16 occasions of a side losing their last six wickets for fewer than 10 runs.
The six ducks in the Indian innings is the joint-most (and the eighth such occasion) by any team in an innings.
The match lasted 107 overs (642 balls) which is the shortest by balls for a result in Test history surpassing the 656 between Australia and South Africa at Melbourne in 1931-32.
The Test is the 23rd to finish within two days with a result. Cape Town features on three of these occasions.
The Test saw the seventh occasion of two Indian bowlers both taking six or more wickets in an innings in the same match. There have been a further nine Indian bowlers have taken six or more wickets in both innings of the same Test.
The South African second innings saw their seventh occasion of all ten wickets falling to catches.
For only their second time in a Test (which was also at Cape Town), South Africa lost nineteen of their twenty wickets in the match to catches. Bizarrely, Cape Town was also the venue where one side (like this Test, India) lost all twenty wickets to catches, in 2021-22.
South Africa's second innings 176 is the second-lowest, completed total to include a century. The lowest is New Zealand's 159 against England at Christchurch in 1962-63.
The Test saw the ninth occasion where one century but no fifty was scored. The first two occasions were also at Cape Town, between South Africa and England in 1892 and 1896. The latest was between West Indies and England at Grenada in 2021/22.
After the first day's play, there have been 606 players dismissed twice in the same day but only fourteen on the first day of a Test. Tristan Stubbs had the misfortune of being one of the fourteen on his debut as did Dean Elgar in his final Test.
Dean Elgar's finished his Test career with 5347 runs at an average of 37.92 in 86 matches. His highest score was 199 against Bangladesh at Potchefstroom in 2017-18 which makes one of twelve players dismissed on this score in Test history. He joins Matthew Elliott, Faf du Plessis and Mohammad Azharuddin as sharing this score as their Test highest. Elgar captained South Africa in 17 Tests and retires as his country's eighth highest run-scorer which included 14 centuries and 23 fifties as well as taking 92 catches, the sixth highest for South Africa.