59 Facts About Jacques Kallis

Jacques Henry Kallis was born on 16 October 1975 and is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer.

Jacques Kallis scored 13,289 runs in his Test match career, took 292 wickets, and 200 catches.

Jacques Kallis won 23 Man-of-the-Match awards, the most by any player in Test history.

Jacques Kallis was declared the Player of the Tournament in South Africa's victorious 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy campaign, which until date is South Africa's only ICC tournament win in their history.

Jacques Kallis finished as the 2nd highest run-scorer and was the leading wicket taker with 'Man of the Match' awards in both the semi-final and the final.

Jacques Kallis played 166 Test matches and had a batting average of over 55 runs.

Jacques Kallis was named Leading Cricketer in the World in 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.

Jacques Kallis 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.

Jacques Kallis became the fourth player and first South African to score 13,000 Test runs on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand on 2 January 2013.

Jacques Kallis was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2013.

Jacques Kallis retired from Test and first-class cricket after playing in the second test against India at Durban in December 2013; Kallis scored his 45th Test hundred in this match, making him one of the few batsmen to score a century in his final Test.

Jacques Kallis retired from all forms of international cricket on 30 July 2014.

In December 2019, it was announced that Jacques Kallis would rejoin the South African national cricket team, The Proteas, as the team's batting consultant for the duration of the summer.

Jacques Kallis attended and played cricket for Wynberg Boys' High School.

In 2009 Wynberg honoured Jacques Kallis by naming their main cricket oval after him.

Jacques Kallis played for Old Edwardians for a spell as a teenager, where coaching staff saw the potential for him to become a first-class all-rounder; in July 1993 he was picked for South Africa U-17's against Scotland's U-19 team.

Jacques Kallis made his World Cup debut in 1996 in Pakistan but did not have much opportunity to excel.

Jacques Kallis's breakthrough came in 1997, with 61 against Pakistan, and then two matches later, he salvaged a draw for South Africa with a fighting century against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Between 1998 and 2002, Jacques Kallis was one of the world's leading all-rounders, as seen in the ICC's cricket ratings.

Jacques Kallis was named in the World ODI XI by the ICC for the year 2004 and 12th man for XI in 2005.

Jacques Kallis was selected for the ODI XI in 2007 as well.

In 2007, Jacques Kallis scored five centuries in four Tests, making him just the fourth man after Bradman, Ken Barrington and Matthew Hayden to score four centuries in four Tests on two different occasions.

Jacques Kallis has a remarkable batting average in the mid-50s, and was consistently rated as one of the best batsmen in the world.

Jacques Kallis is the only man to score over 10,000 runs and to take over 200 wickets in Test cricket.

In 2005, Jacques Kallis was selected for the World XI team to play an Asian XI in a benefit match for those affected by the tsunami of 2004, along with countryman Shaun Pollock.

Jacques Kallis won the "ICC Test Player of the Year" award that year.

In 2006, Jacques Kallis was awarded the captaincy of South Africa for the third and final Test match against Australia when Graeme Smith withdrew with an injury.

Jacques Kallis was criticized in the press for scoring slowly, which cost South Africa momentum at key stages in the tournament.

Jacques Kallis was restored to the team for the Test series against Pakistan, where he scored three centuries in four innings and was awarded "Man of the Match" twice and "Player of the Series".

Jacques Kallis returned to form after an indifferent 2008 and averaged over 50 in his next six series.

The last eight series that Jacques Kallis played in for South Africa were all victories for the Proteas, except for one series draw against Pakistan in the UAE.

Jacques Kallis became one of the few players in world cricket to have won two series each in England and Australia.

Jacques Kallis contributed valuable economical overs and had a knack for taking important wickets.

In September 2014, Jacques Kallis signed a one-year contract with the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League.

Jacques Kallis endured an uncharacteristically poor 2008 with the bat, averaging well under thirty for much of it.

Jacques Kallis played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, where he averaged 16.85 runs per innings with the bat and 55.5 runs per wicket with the ball at an economy rate of 9.65 in the 7 matches he played before he was dropped.

Jacques Kallis then scored 57, while being involved in a 124-run partnership with AB de Villiers, as South Africa chased down 414, the second-highest fourth-innings run-chase in Test history.

Jacques Kallis was featured in all of those matches and remains an integral part of the champion side's set-up.

Jacques Kallis participated in the tour of the West Indies, in which he scored his 35th test cricket century.

Jacques Kallis injured his neck during the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore and missed the Twenty20 and ODI series against Zimbabwe.

Jacques Kallis returned for the ODI series against Pakistan, scoring 66 before having to retire hurt with a cramp.

Jacques Kallis did manage to lay the foundations for an eight-wicket victory.

In December 2010, on the 3rd day of the first test against India, Jacques Kallis scored his maiden double century, scoring 201*.

Jacques Kallis was selected by South Africa for the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Jacques Kallis played a crucial role in the qualification of the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the Champions League T20 during IPL-3 and later on played a crucial role in the triumph of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL-5, scoring a total of 407 runs and taking 15 wickets.

Jacques Kallis was appointed head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in October 2015 when head coach Trevor Bayliss resigned to take over as head coach of England cricket team in June 2015.

Jacques Kallis was batting consultant of KKR for 2015 Indian Premier League season.

In December 2019, Jacques Kallis was appointed as batting consultant for South Africa national cricket team.

Jacques Kallis has earned high praise for his orthodox batting technique.

Jacques Kallis knows when to grind it out or move up through the gears.

Sobers [was] all prowling grace and feline elasticity, with his 360-degree batswing and three-in-one bowling; [whereas] Jacques Kallis [is] all looming bulk and latent power, constructed like a work of neo-brutalist architecture.

Sobers was a cavalier among roundheads; Jacques Kallis has steadily become a roundhead among cavaliers.

Jacques Kallis shared a close relationship with his father, Henry, whom Jacques Kallis cited as his primary influence.

Jacques Kallis's sister Janine Kallis, five years his junior, was a cheerleader in Indian Premier League 2009 and is a physiotherapist based in East London.

When it was discovered that his father had terminal cancer, Jacques Kallis took time out of cricket to be with his father:.

Jacques Kallis started feeling unwell and then, out of the blue, we were told he only had a few months to live.

The couple has a son, Joshua Henry Jacques Kallis, born on 11 March 2020.

Jacques Kallis participates in annual fundraising events for his Foundation, to which he invites fellow South African celebrities and cricketers like Mark Boucher and Andre Nel.

Jacques Kallis has achieved the following career-best rankings in the cricket ratings as determined by the International Cricket Council 3:.