Stats highlights from the first day’s play at Newlands

Shiva Jayaraman02-Jan-20163601 Runs Alastair Cook has made in Tests as England’s captain. In his brief innings of 27, Cook went past Graham Gooch to become the second highest run-scorer as captain for England in Tests. Gooch made 3582 runs at 58.72. Only Mike Atherton, who scored 3815 runs at 40.58, now has more runs than Cook as England’s captain in Tests.3 Number of umpires in Tests who have officiated as an on-field umpire in 100 or more Tests including Aleem Dar, who is standing in his 100th Test. Steve Bucknor and Rudi Koertzen were the ones to do it before Dar.200 Number of fielding dismissals collected by AB de Villiers in Tests. He is only the second South Africa player to effect 200 or more dismissals. Mark Boucher leads this list by a long way with 553 dismissals, all as wicketkeeper.ESPNcricinfo Ltd5 Number of fifty-plus scores by England openers other than Alastair Cook in Tests since 2014, including Alex Hales’ 60. Cook has made 14 such scores since 2014. This was also Hales’ maiden Test fifty and his second first-class fifty on this tour – he made 56 against South Africa A in Pietermaritzburg. Hales has now hit four fifty-plus scores in his last six first-class games.26 Fifty-plus scores by Joe Root – who turned 25 three days ago – in Tests including his 50 in England’s first innings. These are the second highest such scores made by an England batsman at the age of 25 or before. Ian Bell had made 25 such scores at 25 years of age. Alastair Cook had 38 fifty-plus scores (15 hundreds and 23 fifties). Root has made 3167 runs at 54.60 including eight hundreds and 18 fifties. Root has now failed to convert his last five fifty-plus scores into a hundred in Tests.79.56 Ben Stokes’ strike rate in his innings of 74* – the eighth highest in an innings of 50 or more by an England batsman in South Africa. Stokes completed 1000 runs in Tests in this innings. He has 1072 runs at 29.77 in Tests including two hundreds and six fifties. Jonny Bairstow too completed 1000 Test runs during his innings.46 Runs scored by the partnership between Stokes and Bairstow in five overs after South Africa took the new ball. The England batsmen hit as many as eight fours in these overs, including four in the first over with the new ball from Chris Morris. This stand scored 94 runs from just 115 deliveries at a rate of 4.90 – the fifth highest in a fifty-plus run stand by England in South Africa. The sixth-wicket stand in this innings is currently the third highest for England at Newlands.2 Number of fifty-plus stands by England’s first wicket in their last ten Tests including this one. In 18 innings in these ten Tests, England’s opening wicket has averaged 23 runs per dismissal. Their last fifty-plus stand before this innings had come in Abu Dhabi against Pakistan last year when Moeen Ali and Cook added 116 runs.4.5 Chris Morris’ bowling economy from his 22 overs so far in this innings. This is the third worst for any South Africa bowler to bowl at least 20 overs in an innings on debut. Only Rory Kleinveldt and Dale Steyn have done worse. Steyn was the last South Africa pacer to concede 100-plus runs in an innings on debut. Morris has conceded 99 runs.