South Africa vs India Test series, 2018 – Approaching milestones

South Africa and India Test series is most awaited one not only for the two big nations on top of rankings clashing but also the individual battles with both the teams filled up with a couple of world-class players. While the series offers a challenge to the players, few players will be getting a chance to reach new milestones in their respective careers. As many as seven players including four South Africans are nearing a milestone in their Test career.

All the approaching milestones of the players ahead of the South Africa-India Test series:

95 – Number of wickets for Mohammed Shami in Test cricket so far. He needs five more wickets to complete 100 Test wickets. Shami also need six wickets to complete 200 wickets in International cricket.

98 – Catches Hashim Amla taken in his Test career so far. He needs two more catches to become the 4th South African fielder to pouch 100 catches in Test cricket.

99 – Umesh Yadav has bagged 99 wickets so far in Test cricket. He needs one more wicket for completing 100 wickets in this format.

99 – Number of catches Quinton de Kock taken as a wicketkeeper in Test cricket. He needs one more catch to become the 5th South African wicketkeeper with 100 catches in this format.

148 – Number of matches Vernon Philander has played in the first-class cricket so far. He will complete 150 FC appearances in the 2nd game of the series. Philander (47) also needs to feature in three matches to complete 50 appearances in Test cricket.

2826 – Ajinkya Rahane scored 2826 runs in the Test format so far. He needs 174 more runs to complete 3000 Test runs. Rahane (8737) is also 263 runs away from completing 9000 runs in first-class cricket.

2839 – Runs Faf du Plessis aggregated in his Test career so far. He needs 161 more runs to complete 3000 runs in this format.c

2963 – Aiden Markram needs another 37 runs to complete 3000 first-class runs. He has scored 2963 runs in his 39-match FC career so far.

5910 – Wriddhiman Saha scored 5910 runs in his first-class career so far. He needs 90 more runs to complete 6000 FC runs.