St George’s Park Port Elizabeth Test records: Who has scored most runs and picked most wickets in Gqeberha Tests?

St George’s Port Elizabeth Test records: Gqeberha will be hosting an international match after more than two years.

The second Test match of the ongoing Bangladesh’s tour of South Africa will be played in Gqeberha from tomorrow. For those who are unaware, the South African city of Port Elizabeth has been renamed to Gqeberha.

In what will be the last match of Bangladesh’s tour, it will also put an end to what has been a successful summer season for the Proteas. Having registered a triumph by 220 runs by proving their worth in the first Test in Durban, South Africa would be confident of maintaining their unbeaten home spree against Bangladesh in Test cricket.

Set to play their first-ever Test at St George’s, Bangladesh have a lot of positives from the Kingsmead Test to feel sure of themselves in spite of a fourth innings debacle.

As far as playing at this venue is concerned, South Africa have won and lost 13 Tests each out of their 31 Gqeberha Tests.

St George’s Port Elizabeth Test records

South African batters’ domination in Gqeberha Tests can be judged from the fact that the Top 16 highest run-scorers at this venue are all players of the home team. While the Top five highest run-scorers are Jacques Kallis (617), AB de Villiers (591), Dean Elgar (571), Faf du Plessis (553) and Hashim Amla (516), below are the Top Four batters among active cricketers:

Batters	Matches	Runs	Highest	Average	100	50
Dean Elgar (SA)	8	571	121	47.58	2	3
Aiden Markram (SA)	3	235	125	47	1	1
Kusal Mendis (SL)	2	154	84*	52.66	0	2
Ollie Pope	1	135	135*		1	0

Similar to some extent to the batters, the Top Eight wicket-takers in St George’s Tests are all South African cricketers. While the Top five highest wicket-takers are Allan Donald (40), Shaun Pollock (37), Kagiso Rabada (25), Dale Steyn (21) and Makhaya Ntini (20), below are the Top Four bowlers among active cricketers:

Bowlers	Matches	Wickets	Average	SR	5
Kagiso Rabada (SA)	5	25	20.08	35	2
Keshav Maharaj (SA)	5	17	32.35	58.4	2
Nathan Lyon (AUS)	2	9	31.11	62.6	1
Dhananjaya de Silva (SL)	2	7	22	29.1	0

Highest innings totals in Port Elizabeth Tests

Only five (out of 31) Gqeberha Tests have produced a drawn result till date. A primary reason behind the same is that the venue not featuring any 600+ innings totals in its 133-year history.

Team	Score	Overs	Opposition	Year
Australia	549/7d	117×8	South Africa	1950
South Africa	525/8d	153.5	New Zealand	2013
South Africa	502	189.1	England	1965
England	499/9d	152	South Africa	2020
South Africa	470/8d	121.2	Australia	1970