While the South African all-rounder and stand-in captain for this second Test match against Zimbabwe was racking up runs at the Queen's Sports Club in Bulawayo, he frequently made contact with and seized history. The score is self-evident: You are already in rarefied air and have joined a select group of players if you have reached the number of runs that he was able to score in a single inning.

With his efforts in Zimbabwe, Wiaan Mulder broke all the records below before announcing at lunch on day two of the Test innings that he had reached the top 5 of the list of highest individual scores:

Records broken and established by Wiaan Mulder against Zimbabwe:

In an away game, a player achieved the highest individual Test score, surpassing Hanif Mohammad's 337 against West Indies in Bridgetown.

The highest Test score ever recorded by a South African batsman, surpassing Hashim Amla's 2012 score of 311* against England — Only the second Protea to achieve a Test triple-century is Mulder.

The highest test score ever recorded by a South African captain, bringing Graeme Smith's reign to an end.

Also shatters Smith's record for the most runs scored by a South African in a Test match, At Edgbaston in 2003, Smith had a total of 362, including 277 against England and 85 against them.

With 239 against India in Christchurch in 1968, New Zealand's Graham Dowling formerly held the record for the best score on a Test cricket captaincy debut. The record was broken by the highest score ever achieved on a Test cricket captaincy debut.

The first player to score a triple-century in his first game as captain. It is also the third-highest score ever recorded by a player as Test captain, trailing only Lara and Jayawardene.

At 27 years and 138 days, he was the youngest Test captain to hit a triple century, surpassing Bob Simpson of Australia's 61-year-old mark.

A strike rate of 109.88 is the highest in any Test innings with more than 300 runs. breaks Virender Sehwag's record of 104.93, which he achieved in his 319 against South Africa in Chennai.

With 49 fours, it's the second-most in a Test innings, and with 220 runs, it's the second-most runs scored by boundaries in an innings. Only Englishman John Edrich's 52 fours and five sixes against New Zealand at Leeds in 1965 surpassed this number.

With 264 runs, the second-best score on the first day of a Test match, only behind the legendary Don Bradman, who scored 309 runs in a single day of Test cricket in 1930, again in Leeds.

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