Bravo followed Chanderpaul into three figures on Tuesday

Dwayne Bravo hit a record eighth century of the match and West Indies made the sixth-highest total ever as the fourth Test ended in a draw.

South Africa were 127-1 in their second innings before stumps were drawn with Graeme Smith 50 and Boeta Dippenaar 56.

Bravo completed his maiden Test ton, following Shivnarine Chanderpaul into three figures on the final day.

Wicket-keeper Mark Boucher was one of 11 bowlers used, and had Bravo caught for 107, West Indies finishing on 747.

South Africa had already wrapped up the series coming into this match, with the final verdict 2-0.

West Indies' total of 747 has only been bettered five times in Tests but was 205 away from the highest ever.

FOURTH TEST CENTURIONS South Africa 588-6 dec AB de Villiers - 114 Graeme Smith - 126 Jacques Kallis - 147 Ashwell Prince - 131 West Indies 747 Chris Gayle - 317 Ramnaresh Sarwan - 127 Shiv Chanderpaul - 127 Dwayne Bravo - 107

Chanderpaul was one of two wickets to fall in the morning, run out for 127, but the hosts forged on.

As the match became more light-hearted, Makhaya Ntini celebrated his century - of runs conceded - by raising his cap in the air.

And by mid-afternoon Boucher, with some neat medium-pacers, was one of four players new to bowling at this level.

Bravo drove Ntini for four to take West Indies past South Africa's first innings 588 in the middle of a morning session extended by half an hour because of rain on the first day.

Despite the inevitability of the result on the most placid of pitches, Chanderpaul's celebrations of his 13th Test ton were far from low-key.

He sank to his knees and kissed the turf after scoring his third century at this venue and his third against South Africa.

At the moment we're getting spasmodic performances, where people get big scores but they're not backed up Windies coach Bennett King West Indies reaction South Africa reaction

But he was denied the chance to build by a brilliant throw from Shaun Pollock at deep midwicket as he looked for a third.

Bravo had to depend upon last man Dwight Washington so that he and the match could enter the history books.

After AB de Villiers removed Daren Powell for 12 and Tino Best for five, Washington defied the South African attack for close to an hour.

Twice South Africa came close to denying Bravo.

First, they thought they had Washington caught behind off Monde Zondeki before he had scored, but umpire Billy Bowden ruled the ball had brushed the batsman's forearm.

HIGHEST TEST TOTALS 952-6 dec Sri Lanka v India, Colombo 1997 903-7 dec England v Australia, The Oval 1938 849 England v West Indies, Kingston 1929/30 790-3 dec West Indies v Pakistan, Kingston 1957/58 758-8 dec Australia v West Indies, Kingston 1954/55 747 West Indies v South Africa, St John's, 2004/05

Then Bravo, on 94, played a delivery from Zondeki straight to point fielder Boeta Dippenaar, who missed a chance to run out Washington at the wicket-keeper's end.

Substitute fielder Jacques Rudolph at mid-wicket failed to hold a chance off Dippenaar, but Boucher finally brought an increasingly surreal innings to an end.

On three occasions in the past - the most recent occasion featuring these two sides at Cape Town last year - there have been seven individual centuries scored in a single Test, but never eight.

Thirty-one overs remained as South Africa took strike, and there was time for Smith to pass 500 runs for the series, despite some bad tempered exchanges with the West Indies fielders.