Five instances when teams scored more than 400 runs on Day 1 of Test match
3. South Africa vs Bangladesh (Bloemfontein 2017)
In this game, the Proteas batted first and showed the opponents the difference between the two teams in red-ball cricket. At the end of Day One 428/3, Hashim Amla was batting on 89 off 99 balls while Faf du Plessis was batting on 62.
Early in the day, opening batters, Dean Elgar and Aiden Markram scored centuries each. Temba Bavuma was the only batter to score single-digit runs in the entire innings. The home team won the game by innings and 254 runs.