Stats: India's home misery, Harmer's heroics, and Markram's record feat

All the stats highlights from South Africa's monumental win over India in the second Test in Guwahati.

India's misery at home continues

• 3 – This was just the third clean-sweep suffered by India at home, after 0–2 against South Africa in 2000 and 0–3 against New Zealand last year.
• 5 – India have now lost five of their last seven home Tests; their previous five home defeats spanned 50 Tests and 13 seasons.
• 2 – This was their second defeat in successive seasons at home. The last time India lost two Test series at home across consecutive years was over four decades ago: against West Indies in 1983 and England in 1984/85.
• 408 – India's biggest ever defeat-margin in terms of runs, surpassing 342 against Australia in Nagpur 2004. It is also the second biggest victory margin for South Africa, after their 492-run win against Australia in Johannesburg in 2018.

Biggest defeat margins for India in Tests (by runs)

India's batting struggles

• 0 – No individual hundred was scored for India in these two games, their third such instance at home in a minimum two-Test series.
• 15.23 – India batters collectively averaged 15.23 across the series, the second-lowest for them in any Test series.
• 4 – This was just the fourth instance that India didn't manage to go past 250 even once in a bilateral Test series (min. 2 matches).

Simon Harmer's heroics

• 27 – Wickets to Simon Harmer in India is now the most for any South Africa bowler, one more than Dale Steyn.
• 17 – Harmer's wickets in the series are the most for South Africa on an India tour, going past Steyn's 15 in 2008.
• 15.03 – Harmer's bowling average in India is the best among the 109 bowlers to have taken a minimum 20 wickets in the country.
• 8.94 – Harmer averaged 8.94 across these two Tests. Only Courtney Walsh (16 wickets at 8.25 in New Zealand 1994/95) has a better average among bowlers with 15+ wickets in an away series post-WWII.
• 9/101 – Harmer's match returns in Guwahati are the second best for South Africa in India, after Steyn's 10/108 in Nagpur 2010.
• 6/37 – Harmer's second innings figures are the third-best bowling returns for South Africa in India.

Bavuma's South Africa extend an imperious run

• 11 – Wins for Temba Bavuma is the most for anyone in his first 12 Tests as captain, one more than Ben Stokes and Lindsay Hassett.
• 2 – This was South Africa's second Test series win in India after their 2–0 sweep in 2000 under Hansie Cronje.
• 5 – South Africa have won five of their last six Tests in Asia.

Markram's world-record feat

• 9 – Aiden Markram took nine catches in the game, the most by a non-wicketkeeper in a Test match ever, surpassing eight by Ajinkya Rahane.
• 5 – He pouched five catches in the first innings, a joint-record in a Test innings, matched only by Graeme Smith among South Africa players.

Jansen stands tall in a historic result

• 7 – Sixes for Jansen during his 93-run knock on Day 2 is the joint-most for South Africa in a Test innings.
• 11 – He became the 11th player to be dismissed in the nineties while batting from No.9 or lower in Tests, the first for South Africa.
• 6/48 – Jansen later took 6/48 with the ball, becoming just the third left-arm quick to take a Test five-fer in India since 1988, after Zaheer Khan and Mitchell Johnson.
• 4 – Instances of a seamer taking six wickets with short-balls in a Test innings since 2006. Neil Wagner did it twice; only two other bowlers took five wickets with short-pitched balls in a Test innings in Asia in that time.