Delhi Test match Between India and South Africa was one of those Test matches that have some unusual records to its name.

In the Delhi Test the South African team played very slowly in the second innings and made 143 runs in their 143.1 overs and this was a record in itself that at the end the run rate was even less that one run per over.

This kind of portrayal of slow innings has been noted few times in the history when New Zealand were bowled out for 26 by England in Auckland in 1954-55 and the innings lasted only for 27 overs with a run rate of 0.96 runs per over.

When it comes to slow batting one cannot think of Hashim Amla as he is very much technically sound and has a good image of rotating strike at regular basis. But he batted extremely slowly in the second session of the fourth day of the Delhi Test making just six runs in the complete session.

There was another batsman who scored even at a slower pace that Amla i.e Martin Crowe scored just four runs in the second session of the final day of New Zealand’s Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 1983-84.

Bowling a maiden over is considered to be tight and compact bowling and India bowled 89 maidens in South Africa’s second innings in Delhi but this was not the maximum number of maidens in any Test innings. The record is of 148 maiden overs bowled by England against Australia who scored 279 in 274.1 overs in Melbourne back in 1884-85.