Lindsay’s 606 runs in the series remains the record for a wicketkeeper. Accurate figures for his overall run-rate are unavailable, but according to R.S. Whitington, at the end of the second day of the Fourth Test Lindsay had made 585 runs in the series off 816 balls, which is a rate of 71 runs per 100 balls, so it is reasonable to assume that his final rate for the series was at least 70. Overall series run-rates for the two sides were 47 per 100 balls for South Africa (43 per 100 apart from Lindsay), 40 per 100 balls for Australia; his scoring rate was therefore 50 per cent higher than the series average.