Mohammed Siraj
needed just 9 overs to bag 6 wickets, and India 23.2 overs to bowl South Africa out for 55. In reply, the visitors were comfortably placed at 153/4, before losing 6 wickets in 11 balls without adding a run. At stumps on a bruising Day 1 in Cape Town where pacers made merry as 23 wickets tumbled, the hosts managed 62/3 in their 2nd innings, still trailing India by 36 runs.
55 all out is SA's lowest Test total at home after 35 vs Eng, also in Cape Town, in 1899, & SA's lowest since 1932 (36 & 45 vs Aus at MCG). Also the lowest score by a team against India in a Test innings, after New Zealand's 62 at Wankhede in 2021.
23.2 overs taken by India to pick up 10 wickets is a new record for them after 25.1 overs they took to bowl out SA in Jo'burg in 2006.
6/15 by Mohd Siraj are his career-best figures & 2nd-best before lunch on Day 1 of a men's Test (
Stuart Broad
took 8/15 vs Aus in 2015).
9 overs by Siraj are the fewest an Indian has needed to take 6 or more wickets in men's Tests. Prasad bagged 6/33 in 10.2 overs vs Pak in Chennai in '99.
23 wickets in a day in a Test is the jointmost in South Africa, after SA vs Aus, also at Newlands, in 2011. Highest ever is 27 (Eng vs Aus) at Lord's in 1888.
6 Indians were out for 0, first time since their 152 all out vs England in Manchester in 2014. Also the first time a team lost 6 successive wickets on the same score in a Test innings.
2 Dean Elgar
is only the 2nd player after Jack Barrett of Aus in 1890 to be dismissed twice on the same day of his last Test.
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