Young gun Rabada's incredible Test record

Kagiso Rabada's send-offs have created a lot of headlines but he is on track to become South Africa's greatest ever bowler.

KAGISO RABADA STARRED IN PORT ELIZABETH, REAFFIRMING WHY HE IS REGARDED SO HIGHLY

BEST TEST STRIKE-RATES IN THE WORLD (MINIMUM 2000 BALLS) *George Lohmann (34.1) *JJ Ferris (37.7) *Shane Bond (38.7) *Kagiso Rabada (38.9) *Dale Steyn (41.5)

BEST MATCH FIGURES BY A SOUTH AFRICAN V AUSTRALIA *13-165 Hugh Tayfield (MCG, 1956) *11-150 Kagiso Rabada (Port Elizabeth, 2018) *10-116 Charlie Llewellyn (Johannesburg, 1902) *10-123 Fanie de Villiers (SCG, 1994)

MOST TEN-WICKET TEST MATCH HAULS BY A SOUTH AFRICAN *5 Dale Steyn (86 Tests) *4 Kagiso Rabada (28 Tests) *4 Makhaya Ntini (101 Tests) *3 Allan Donald (72 Tests)

WHAT ELSE? The 22-year-old now has 135 wickets at an average of 21.45 from 28 Tests. Waqar Younis, Harbhajan Singh and Kapil Dev are the only three men in Test history to have snared more wickets before turning 23.


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