Jacques Kallis

Personal information

Full name

Jacques Henry Kallis

Born

16 October 1975 (age 41)
Cape Town, South Africa

Nickname

Jakes, Woogie, Kalahari

Height

1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)

School Attended: Wynberg Boys' High School

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right arm fast-medium

Role

All rounder

International information

National side

South Africa

Test debut (cap 262)

14 December 1995 v England

Last Test

26 December 2013 v India

ODI debut (cap 328)

9 January 1996 v England

Last ODI

12 July 2014 v Sri Lanka

ODI shirt no.

8 (was 4, 3, 6)

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1993–

Western Province / Cape Cobras

1997

Middlesex

1999

Glamorgan

2008–2010

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2011–2014

Kolkata Knight Riders

2014-2015

Sydney Thunder

2015

Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel

Career statistics

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	166	328	257	424
Runs scored	13,289	11,579	19,695	14,845
Batting average	55.37	44.36	54.10	43.53
100s/50s	45/58	17/86	62/97	23/109
Top score	224	139	224	155*
Balls bowled	20,232	10,750	29,033	13,673
Wickets	292	273	427	351
Bowling average	32.65	31.79	31.69	30.68
5 wickets in innings	5	2	8	3
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	6/54	5/30	6/54	5/30
Catches/stumpings	200/–	131/–	264/–	162/–

Source: Cricinfo, 14 February 2016

1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)

Jacques Kallis (born 16 October 1975) is a former South African cricketer and the current coach of Kolkata Knight Riders. As a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler, Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest players of the game and all-rounders. As of 2016^[update] he was the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take 250 wickets in both one-day and Test match cricket.

Kallis played 166 Test matches and had a batting average of over 55 runs per innings. From October to December 2007 he scored five centuries in four Test Matches; with his century in the second innings of the third test against India in January 2011, his 40th in all, he moved past Ricky Ponting to become the second-highest scorer of Test centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar's 51.

Kallis was named Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2008 Wisden for his performances in 2007 in addition to being the "ICC Test Player of the Year" and ICC Player of the Year in 2005. He has been described by Kevin Pietersen and Daryll Cullinan as the greatest cricketer to play the game, and along with Wally Hammond and Sir Garry Sobers is one of the few Test all-rounders whose Test batting average is over 50 and exceeds his Test bowling average by 20 or more.

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