It is none other than Jacques Henry Kallis the famous all-rounder from South Africa who was born on 16th October 1975 in Cape Town , South Africa. He is a prolific right handed middle order batsmen and bowls a very useful right arm medium pace. He made his debut against England in the year 1995 and made his one-day international debut in the same tour. Initially he struggled with the bat but his break came when he scored a ton against Australia at the MCG to salvage a draw for the Proteas.
He is one of the very few cricketers to have scored more than 10000 runs in both forms of the game. More notably he is the only player to have got the rare double of more than 10000 runs and 250 runs in test cricket. Similar to the above said rare double he also has many records under his belt. He is only the third man in test cricket to score centuries in five consecutive matches. He was always tagged as a very slow and a less aggressive player and he proved his critics wrong by scoring the fastest half-century in the history of test cricket. He achieved this feat against Zimbabwe scoring 50 from just 24 balls.
He proved to the world that he is one of the finest all-rounders in the world by performing both with the ball and the ball in the recently concluded series against Australia in Australia. Even his coach Mickey Arthur recently showed his satisfaction in the performance of Kallis saying that, ‘he compensated with the ball every time he failed to contribute with the bat’. So he is a dream all-rounder every captain would love to have in their team.
He is one of the very few cricketers to have scored more than 10000 runs in both forms of the game. More notably he is the only player to have got the rare double of more than 10000 runs and 250 runs in test cricket. Similar to the above said rare double he also has many records under his belt. He is only the third man in test cricket to score centuries in five consecutive matches. He was always tagged as a very slow and a less aggressive player and he proved his critics wrong by scoring the fastest half-century in the history of test cricket. He achieved this feat against Zimbabwe scoring 50 from just 24 balls.
He proved to the world that he is one of the finest all-rounders in the world by performing both with the ball and the ball in the recently concluded series against Australia in Australia. Even his coach Mickey Arthur recently showed his satisfaction in the performance of Kallis saying that, ‘he compensated with the ball every time he failed to contribute with the bat’. So he is a dream all-rounder every captain would love to have in their team.
