SPD Smith of Australia pouched six catches – five in the first innings and one in the second innings – in the ongoing test against South Africa at Cape Town to provide the 36th occasion of a fieldsman excluding wicketkeepers to pouch six or more catches  in a test in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	Dis	Ct	Ct Fi	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	A Shrewsbury Snr	6	6	6	Eng	Aus	Sydney	10 Feb 1888
2	AEE Vogler	6	6	6	SAF	Eng	Durban	21 Jan 1910
3	FE Woolley	6	6	6	Eng	Aus	Sydney	23 Feb 1912
4	JM Gregory	6	6	6	Aus	Eng	Sydney	25 Feb 1921
5	B Mitchell	6	6	6	SAF	Aus	Melbourne	31 Dec 1931
6	VY Richardson	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Durban	28 Feb 1936
7	RN Harvey	6	6	6	Aus	Eng	Sydney	15 Feb 1963
8	MC Cowdrey	6	6	6	Eng	Win	Lord’s	20 Jun 1963
9	ED Solkar	6	6	6	Ind	Win	Port of Spain	06 Mar 1971
10	GS Sobers	6	6	6	Win	Eng	Lord’s	23 Aug 1973
11	IM Chappell	6	6	6	Aus	NZl	Adelaide	26 Jan 1974
12	AW Greig	6	6	6	Eng	Pak	Leeds	25 Jul 1974
13	GS Chappell	7	7	7	Aus	Eng	Perth	13 Dec 1974
14	Yajurvindra Singh	7	7	7	Ind	Eng	Bengaluru	28 Jan 1977
15	DF Whatmore	6	6	6	Aus	Ind	Kanpur	02 Oct 1979
16	AJ Lamb	6	6	6	Eng	NZl	Lord’s	11 Aug 1983
17	GA Hick	6	6	6	Eng	Pak	Leeds	23 Jul 1992
18	HP Tillakaratne	7	7	7	Srl	NZl	Col-SSC	06 Dec 1992
19	BA Young	6	6	6	NZl	Pak	Auckland	10 Feb 1994
20	JC Adams	6	6	6	Win	Eng	Kingston	19 Feb 1994
21	SP Fleming	7	7	7	NZl	Zim	Harare	18 Sep 1997
22	SP Fleming	6	6	6	NZl	Aus	Brisbane	07 Nov 1997
23	M Jayawardene	6	6	6	Srl	Pak	Peshawar	05 Mar 2000
24	ME Waugh	6	6	6	Srl	Ind	Chennai	18 Mar 2001
25	V Sehwag	6	6	6	Ind	Eng	Leeds	22 Aug 2002
26	Taufeeq Umar	6	6	6	Pak	SAF	Faisalabad	24 Oct 2003
27	ML Hayden	7	7	7	Aus	Srl	Galle	08 Mar 2004
28	M Jayawardene	6	6	6	Srl	Zim	Harare	06 May 2004
29	SP Fleming	6	6	6	NZl	Win	Wellington	17 Mar 2006
30	AN Cook	6	6	6	Eng	NZl	Hamilton	05 Mar 2008
31	JH Kallis	6	6	6	SAF	Srl	Cape Town	03 Jan 2012
32	GC Smith	6	6	6	SAF	Aus	Perth	30 Nov 2012
33	DM Bravo	6	6	6	Win	Ban	Kingstown	05 Sep 2014
34	AM Rahane	8	8	8	Ind	Srl	Galle	12 Aug 2015
35	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	Srl	Col-SSC	13 Aug 2016
36	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Cape Town	22 Mar 2018

SPD Smith’s feat provides the ninth occasion of an Australian fieldsman excluding wicketkeepers to pouch six or more catches in a test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Dis	Ct	Ct Fi	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	JM Gregory	6	6	6	Aus	Eng	Sydney	25 Feb 1921
2	VY Richardson	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Durban	28 Feb 1936
3	RN Harvey	6	6	6	Aus	Eng	Sydney	15 Feb 1963
4	IM Chappell	6	6	6	Aus	NZl	Adelaide	26 Jan 1974
5	GS Chappell	7	7	7	Aus	Eng	Perth	13 Dec 1974
6	DF Whatmore	6	6	6	Aus	Ind	Kanpur	02 Oct 1979
7	ML Hayden	7	7	7	Aus	Srl	Galle	08 Mar 2004
8	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	Srl	Col-SSC	13 Aug 2016
9	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Cape Town	22 Mar 2018

SPD Smith’s feat provides the third occasion of a fieldsman excluding wicketkeepers to pouch six or more catches in a test against South Africa. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Dis	Ct	Ct Fi	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	VY Richardson	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Durban	28 Feb 1936
2	Taufeeq Umar	6	6	6	Pak	SAF	Faisalabad	24 Oct 2003
3	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Cape Town	22 Mar 2018

SPD Smith became the second Australian fieldsman excluding wicket keepers to pouch six catches in a test against South Africa. VY Richardson had pouched six catches against South Africa at Durban in Feb 1936.

No	Player	Dis	Ct	Ct Fi	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	VY Richardson	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Durban	28 Feb 1936
2	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Cape Town	22 Mar 2018

SP Fleming of New Zealand {03}, M Jayawardene of Sri Lanka {02} and SPD Smith of Australia {02} are the three fieldsmen excluding wicket keeper in the annals of test cricket to pouch six or more catches in a test on two or more occasions. The performance of these three fieldsmen  are tabulated below

No	Player	Dis	Ct	Ct Fi	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	SP Fleming	7	7	7	NZl	Zim	Harare	18 Sep 1997
2	SP Fleming	6	6	6	NZl	Aus	Brisbane	07 Nov 1997
3	SP Fleming	6	6	6	NZl	Win	Wellington	17 Mar 2006
1	M Jayawardene	6	6	6	Srl	Pak	Peshawar	05 Mar 2000
2	M Jayawardene	6	6	6	Srl	Zim	Harare	06 May 2004
1	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	Srl	Col-SSC	13 Aug 2016
2	SPD Smith	6	6	6	Aus	SAF	Cape Town	22 Mar 2018