S Rajesh is ESPNcricinfo's stats editor in Bangalore. He did an MBA in marketing, and then worked for a year in advertising, before deciding to chuck it in favour of a job which would combine the pleasures of watching cricket and writing about it. The intense office cricket matches were an added bonus.
5 Number of times Josh Hazlewood has dismissed Hashim Amla in this series; this is the first time a bowler has dismissed Amla more than four times in a series. Amla has scored only 29 from 52 balls off Hazlewood, at an average of 5.80.
15 Instances in Test history of a batsman being dismissed by the same bowler in every innings that he has been dismissed in, in a Test series. The last such instance also involved a South African batsman: Stiaan van Zyl was dismissed by R Ashwin in five out of five innings in India last season.
8 Wickets for Mitchell Starc in the first over of a Test innings, which is the joint highest among all bowlers since his debut, in December 2011. He has done it twice in this series against South Africa, dismissing Stephen Cook in the first over in Perth.
20 Wickets in the first over for Starc in all international cricket since the start of 2015 - eight in Tests, 11 in ODIs and one in T20Is. No other bowler has more than seven such wickets during this period.
90.88 Usman Khawaja's average in his last ten Test innings at home, since his comeback to the team last season. He has scored four hundreds in these ten innings, and his scores read as follows: 174, 9*, 121, 144, 56, 4, 97, 4, 64, 145. Overall, Khawaja has a home average of 67.42 (944 runs in 16 innings), and an away average of 30.29 (515 runs in 18 innings).
