• This (76 in 20 overs) was India’s second lowest total at home.

• Their lowest total at home is 75, in 35.5 overs, against the West Indies in Delhi in 1987-88. On that occasion as well, India had won the toss and elected to bat. There have been 14 other instances, though, of teams scoring less than 76 after winning the toss.

• It was also India’s lowest-ever total against South Africa at home and their seventh-lowest in 417 Tests.

• This is only the second time India have been bowled out for under 100 against South Africa. India were bowled out for 66 in 34.1 overs in Durban in 1996-97.

• The Indian innings lasted just 20 overs, which is the shortest completed innings ever in the subcontinent.

• It’s also India’s second-shortest completed innings after 42 in 17 overs against England at Lord’s in 1974.

• Fast bowler Dale Steyn needed only eight overs for his five-wicket haul. Only one South African has needed fewer overs for a fiver — Jacques Kallis, who took five for 21 in 4.3 overs against Bangladesh in

Potchefstroom in 2002-03.

• Nine of out 11 batsmen made single-digit scores in the Indian innings. This is only the eighth instance of an Indian innings containing nine or more single-digit scores. Only twice have there been ten single-digit scores in an Indian innings, and both happened within three months of each other, in 1996-97, against South Africa in Durban and then against the West Indies in Barbados.

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