India won the second Test against South Africa by an innings and 137 runs to seal the three-match series with a game to spare, at Pune on Sunday. India had won the series-opener in Bengaluru by 203 runs.
Following on, South Africa were all out for 189 in their second innings in the final session of day four. India scored a mammoth 601 for five in their first innings with skipper Virat Kohli leading the side with a majestic double hundred.
Opener Dean Elgar (48) was the top-scorer for the visitors while pacer Umesh Yadav (3/22) and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3/52) took three wickets apiece for India.
Here are all the records created and feats achieved in the match:
# Most consecutive series wins at home:
- 11 by India (2012/13 - present)
- 10 by Australia (1994/95 - 2000/01)
= 10 by Australia (2004 - 2008/09)
- 8 by West Indies (1975/76 - 1985/86)
# India's tenth biggest win (by innings).
# Third most wins in first 50 Tests as captain for Virat Kohli, after Steve Waugh (37) and Ricky Ponting (35).
# Kohli scored his career-best 254 not out, and completed 7000 Test runs.
# Kohli becomes second Indian captain to win the man of the match award in a Test match against South Africa, after Sachin Tendulkar in 2000.
# 55th man of the match award for Kohli - 9 in Tests, 35 in ODIs and 11 in T20Is. Only behind Tendulkar (76), Sanath Jayasuriya (58) and Jacques Kallis (57).
# Kohli's 9 man of the match awards in Test cricket is fourth in the list for Indians, after Tendulkar (14), Rahul Dravid (11) and Anil Kumble (10).
# Mayank Agarwal becomes only the second Indian opener to hit centuries in back-to-back Test matches against South Africa, after Virender Sehwag in 2010.
# South Africa's first innings defeat since losing by an innings and 57 runs against India in Kolkata in 2010.
# For the second time India beat South Africa by an innings margin.
# For the second time South Africa lost by a margin of innings & 100+ runs to a team other than Australia or England, after innings & 153 runs defeat to Sri Lanka in 2006.
The third and final Test will be played in Ranchi from October 19.
South Africa will return to India next year to compete in a three-match ODI series, beginning in Dharamsala on March 20.
