Jacques Kallis one of the game’s greatest allrounders, retires from Test cricket after the Boxing Day match against India. Kallis announced his decision on Wednesday, on the eve of the second Test against India, but stated that he would still like to play the 2015 World Cup for South Africa.
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In a statement, Kallis said: “It wasn’t an easy decision, with Australia around the corner and the success this team is enjoying, but I feel the time is right. I don’t see it as goodbye, I still have a lot of hunger to push South Africa to that World Cup in 2015 if I am fit and performing. The last two years specifically have been a memorable journey with an exceptional group of cricketers. I am fortunate enough to have ended my Test career amongst a group of talented cricketers but, more importantly, friends whom I will cherish for years to come.”
Kallis, who made his Test debut against England in December 1995, and has played 165 Tests, scoring 13174 runs at an average of 55.12, with 44 centuries and 58 half-centuries.
He is currently fourth on the list of leading run-getters in Test cricket, and is also second on the list of batsmen with most Test centuries, apart from having scored the most runs for South Africa in Tests. Kallis’ status as the pre-eminent allrounder of his era stemmed from his contributions as a bowler – 292 Test wickets at an average of 32.53 – and fielder, whose 199 catches ranks him only behind Rahul Dravid in the Test list. He has one more match to add to those numbers.
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Batting has been the reason for questions surrounding Kallis’ form. He last scored a century more than a year ago, in November 2012, against Australia in Brisbane. In 2013, he has scored just 194 runs with no hundreds – a first for Kallis in a calendar year – and only two half-centuries. He has been dismissed in single figures in five of his last seven innings, twice for a duck, and on four occasions playing across the line and being struck lbw.
On South Africa’s recent visit to the UAE, Kallis had the leanest series of his career. He did not get into double figures once and did not take a single wicket either. Asked then whether there were concerns about how much longer Kallis would play, Graeme Smith had dismissed them. “He still has a great desire to play for South Africa,” he said.
Kallis’ struggles were brushed off as nothing more than rustiness after a long lay off. While most of the team hadn’t played competitively for three months, Kallis was coming in from a much longer break that started when the IPL ended in May. South Africa did not play Test cricket in that time and Kallis, who initially made himself available for the Champions Trophy, withdrew from the squad citing personal reasons. He had not played fifty-over cricket for South Africa for 15 months at that stage, because of his workload management. He also played no part in the tour of Sri Lanka in August, in keeping with the policy of leaving him out of bilateral limited-overs series.
Kallis’ wish to win a World Cup medal had not dimmed. So at the end of that month, after a meeting with new coach Russell Domingo, Kallis recommitted to the ODI squad. Domingo announced that Kallis would play in most of South Africa’s ODIs in the lead-up to 2015, starting with the home series against India.
He played in the hastily organised home series against Pakistan and celebrated his comeback with a half-century. Kallis has turned out in three ODIs since then, sitting out of the dead-rubbers against both Pakistan and India, scoring 26 runs and claiming three wickets.
South Africa do not play any one-day cricket until next July against Zimbabwe, which means Kallis will disappear from the international arena for at least seven months after this Test. Following that, they have a five-match series against Australia and another five matches against West Indies at home before the 2015 World Cup.
If Kallis plays in all those matches, he will turn out 13 more times for South Africa before the tournament. That scarcity is something Russell Domingo, South Africa’s coach, said the team would take some getting used to because Kallis has been a constant in the dressing room. “The impact Jacques has made on South African cricket has been immense, not just as a player but as a human being,” Domingo said. “I’m not sure we will ever see another player of that stature very soon. Jacques’ calmness, maturity and presence in the change room will sorely be missed and hopefully he will still be able to play a role in this team’s success in the near future. He has ambitions of playing in the 2015 World Cup and it will be important for us to manage him accordingly so that he is in prime form leading into the tournament.”
Haroon Lorgat, Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, praised Kallis, calling him South African cricket’s “Rock of Gibraltar”. “He has been a stalwart for many years and South Africa’s recent triumphs and greatness have been built around him. He is a legend and his statistics speak volumes,” Lorgat said. “Jacques has been ever present for the Proteas in the past 18 years and it is fitting that his final Test should be on the same ground as the one on which he made his debut against England back in 1995.”
India 334 & 223
South Africa 500 & 59/0 (11.4 ov)
South Africa won by 10 wickets
- India in South Africa Test Series – 2nd Test
- Test no. 2111 | 2013/14 season
- Played at Kingsmead, Durban
- 26,27,28,29,30 December 2013 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| S Dhawan | c Petersen b Morkel | 29 | 64 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 59.18 | |
| M Vijay | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 97 | 309 | 226 | 18 | 0 | 42.92 | |
| CA Pujara | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 70 | 233 | 132 | 9 | 0 | 53.03 | |
| V Kohli | c †de Villiers b Morkel | 46 | 114 | 87 | 5 | 0 | 52.87 | |
| RG Sharma | b Steyn | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AM Rahane | not out | 51 | 191 | 121 | 8 | 0 | 42.14 | |
| MS Dhoni*† | c Smith b Steyn | 24 | 57 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| RA Jadeja | c Kallis b Duminy | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Z Khan | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| I Sharma | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| Mohammed Shami | c Smith b Morkel | 1 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 7, w 4, nb 1) | 12 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 111.3 overs; 502 mins) | 334 | (2.99 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-41 (Dhawan, 13.1 ov), 2-198 (Pujara, 66.3 ov), 3-199 (Vijay, 68.5 ov), 4-199 (RG Sharma, 68.6 ov), 5-265 (Kohli, 92.3 ov), 6-320 (Dhoni, 106.4 ov), 7-321 (Jadeja, 107.5 ov), 8-322 (Khan, 108.2 ov), 9-330 (I Sharma, 108.5 ov), 10-334 (Mohammed Shami, 111.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 30 | 9 | 100 | 6 | 3.33 | (2w) | ||
| VD Philander | 21 | 6 | 56 | 0 | 2.66 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| M Morkel | 23.3 | 6 | 50 | 3 | 2.12 | (1w) | ||
| JH Kallis | 11 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 3.27 | |||
| RJ Peterson | 22 | 2 | 75 | 0 | 3.40 | |||
| JP Duminy | 4 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 2.50 |
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GC Smith* | c Dhawan b Jadeja | 47 | 120 | 81 | 7 | 0 | 58.02 | |
| AN Petersen | c Vijay b Jadeja | 62 | 148 | 100 | 8 | 0 | 62.00 | |
| HM Amla | b Mohammed Shami | 3 | 24 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| JH Kallis | c †Dhoni b Jadeja | 115 | 393 | 316 | 13 | 0 | 36.39 | |
| AB de Villiers† | c Kohli b Jadeja | 74 | 161 | 117 | 9 | 0 | 63.24 | |
| JP Duminy | lbw b Jadeja | 28 | 102 | 82 | 4 | 0 | 34.14 | |
| DW Steyn | c †Dhoni b Khan | 44 | 139 | 94 | 7 | 0 | 46.80 | |
| F du Plessis | run out (RG Sharma) | 43 | 105 | 70 | 4 | 0 | 61.42 | |
| RJ Peterson | c Vijay b Khan | 61 | 88 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 117.30 | |
| VD Philander | not out | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Morkel | c & b Jadeja | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 3, lb 15, w 2, nb 3) | 23 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 155.2 overs) | 500 | (3.21 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-103 (Smith, 27.1 ov), 2-113 (Amla, 32.6 ov), 3-113 (Petersen, 33.1 ov), 4-240 (de Villiers, 73.6 ov), 5-298 (Duminy, 103.2 ov), 6-384 (Kallis, 133.3 ov), 7-387 (Steyn, 136.1 ov), 8-497 (Peterson, 154.1 ov), 9-500 (du Plessis, 154.6 ov), 10-500 (Morkel, 155.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Z Khan | 28 | 4 | 97 | 2 | 3.46 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| Mohammed Shami | 27 | 2 | 104 | 1 | 3.85 | |||
| I Sharma | 31 | 7 | 114 | 0 | 3.67 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| RA Jadeja | 58.2 | 15 | 138 | 6 | 2.36 | |||
| RG Sharma | 11 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 2.63 |
| India 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| S Dhawan | c du Plessis b Peterson | 19 | 120 | 87 | 2 | 0 | 21.83 | |
| M Vijay | c Smith b Philander | 6 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| CA Pujara | b Steyn | 32 | 137 | 100 | 4 | 0 | 32.00 | |
| V Kohli | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 11 | 26 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 40.74 | |
| RG Sharma | lbw b Philander | 25 | 69 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 54.34 | |
| AM Rahane | b Philander | 96 | 219 | 157 | 11 | 2 | 61.14 | |
| MS Dhoni*† | c Petersen b Peterson | 15 | 47 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 51.72 | |
| RA Jadeja | c Morkel b Peterson | 8 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 160.00 | |
| Z Khan | lbw b Peterson | 3 | 68 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 7.31 | |
| I Sharma | c †de Villiers b Steyn | 1 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 | |
| Mohammed Shami | not out | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, w 2) | 6 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 86 overs; 381 mins) | 223 | (2.59 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-8 (Vijay, 5.3 ov), 2-53 (Dhawan, 27.5 ov), 3-68 (Kohli, 36.1 ov), 4-71 (Pujara, 38.6 ov), 5-104 (RG Sharma, 50.4 ov), 6-146 (Dhoni, 61.1 ov), 7-154 (Jadeja, 61.6 ov), 8-189 (Khan, 77.6 ov), 9-206 (I Sharma, 84.1 ov), 10-223 (Rahane, 85.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DW Steyn | 21 | 8 | 47 | 3 | 2.23 | (1w) | ||
| VD Philander | 16 | 4 | 43 | 3 | 2.68 | |||
| M Morkel | 16 | 6 | 34 | 0 | 2.12 | |||
| RJ Peterson | 24 | 3 | 74 | 4 | 3.08 | (1w) | ||
| JP Duminy | 8 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| F du Plessis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 |
| South Africa 2nd innings (target: 58 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GC Smith* | not out | 27 | 48 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 81.81 | |
| AN Petersen | not out | 31 | 48 | 37 | 5 | 1 | 83.78 | |
| Extras | (w 1) | 1 | ||||||
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| Total | (0 wickets; 11.4 overs; 48 mins) | 59 | (5.05 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers†, F du Plessis, JP Duminy, RJ Peterson, VD Philander, DW Steyn, M Morkel |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Mohammed Shami | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.00 | |||
| I Sharma | 5 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 5.80 | (1w) | ||
| RA Jadeja | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
| RG Sharma | 0.4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 15.00 |
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| Toss India, who chose to bat Series South Africa won the 2-match series 1-0 |
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| Player of the match tba | |||||||||
| Umpires SJ Davis (Australia) and RJ Tucker (Australia) TV umpire AT Holdstock Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire S George |
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India 121/5 after 56 overs, 45 runs behind.
Hellloooooooooo
India 165 / 7 in their 2nd Innings, still trailing by 1 run, after 66 overs bowled at them.
If the Blomme could quickly wrap this tail up, they could easily win the Test today!
India go into the lead by 1 run, but they are 7 down…
Come on Blomme!
Lunch – Day 5
India 173 / 7, a slender lead of 7 runs
Lunch- India 173/7, 7 runs ahead, good stuff from Robin Peterson who has taken 3 wickets so far in this innings. New ball still 12 overs away, Rahane on 50 and Khan 2 will resume after the break, need to get Rahane out quickly.
64 @ grootblousmile:
Oops sorry GBS multi-tasking here just seen you had posted things already. How are you anyway did you have a good time away? Would really love to be able to be watching this one must be quite exciting.
India 197 / 8 after 80 overs, new ball is due.
India leads by only 31.
66 @ Bullscot:
Hello Bully, thanks for keeping the scores up whilst I was away.
Was the laziest 3 days of my life, I’m sure!
We needed that.
India 197/8 at drinks break 82 over bowled and new ball not taken, surely they must take it now. India 31 runs ahead.
Wicket!
India 206 / 9
One more wicket needed!
Bowled!
India ALL OUT for 223!
SA need 58 to win!
India 223 all out, SA need 57 runs to win!
Rahane was the last wicket to fall for 96 bowled by Philander off the last ball of the over having hit Philander for 12 in that over. Pity for Rahane that he fell just short of what would have been a great century under immense pressure.
3 wickets apiece for Steyn and Philander and 4 for Robin Peterson, really good effort from them
Congratulations to Steyn on reaching 350 test wickets, 2nd fastest to reach this mark.
Almost 4 hours to reach the required 58 runs… enough time!
India starts with a maiden…
SA 0 / 0
SA 4 / 0 with 1 4 in the 2nd over.
Smith almost run out…
@ grootblousmile: A very Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year to you and your family, I hope all is well, and that you have managed to have a decent break!
Been hectic here over the Xmas season – new business taking up so much of my time, as the Christmas period is the biggest income period for me, and thus not able to spend as much time as I would have liked watching the odd bit of cricket and rugby!!!!
Just had some time to watch this test, and how well the boys are doing!!!!! A great send off for King Kallis!! Go SA!
SA 8 / 0 after 3 overs
SA need 50 to win the Test and the Series
Unless anything untoward happens, SA should wrap this match up well before close of play today – or rather before the typical Durban ‘Bad Light’ stops play!
80 @ Just For Kicks:
Hello Kickers!
Good to see that you are well, even if busy.
I am doing almost nothing, being as lazy as I can be.
Spent some time on Quad bikes, braaing and generally just charging batteries the last few days. Was at a beautiful privately owned piece of property on the Vaal River in a little area called Renovaal, not too far away from Viljoenskroon.
It is at the junction of the Vaal and Renoster Rivers, the property at that exact junction where the Renoster River’s mouth joins the Vaal. About 300m of prime waterfront on the Vaal and I’d say about 200m on the Renoster River.
The Vaal River is about 175m wide there.
Did not see a cell phone, PC or a minute of TV the whole time.
82 @ Just For Kicks:
Weather looks good, blue skies in Durban…. so like you say, something untoward only could stop the Blomme from winning
SA 19 / 0 after 6 overs, now 39 needed for the win
Tea Time is called
@ grootblousmile:83 Every now and then a complete break is needed!!!
80 @ Just For Kicks:
Oh, and lest I forget, compliments of the season and a prosperous New Year to you and Beanie and the kids too!
86 @ Just For Kicks:
Too true!
We resolved to take more long weekend breaks in 2014, hope we hold to it.
Having been in the heart of English Cricket over the last month or so, it is great to see SA Test cricket doing so well. Two side could not be so far apart at the moment as SA and England. There is nothing good being said about English cricket over here, and rightly so! I really don’t think that the Aussies have that good a team at the moment, and the upcoming series will be a really good litmus test to see just how poor the England side have become.
But where it is all doom and gloom over here, should SA win this match, they will extend their lead even further at the top of the international leader board, and what a great way for Kallis to end his Test career. A good team, riding high, and should keep the Ausies down in the next series.
89 @ Just For Kicks:
SA could do even better if and when they develop that “Killer Instinct” they lacked in the 1st Test, a few days ago.
The Aussie series in SA will be interesting indeed…. but it will get lesser notice with our Rugby season in full swing then, with the Six Nations, Varsity Cup and Super Rugby on the go at that stage already.
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