Jacques Kallis announced his retirement from One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and T20Is to end his International cricket career. Over the years he has emerged as one of the finest all-rounders of the present generation. Bharath Seervi takes a statistical view of his ODI career.
Jacques Kallis has decided to end up his International cricket career by announcing retirement from the shorter formats of the game — ODIs and T20Is. He had retired from Test career at the end of the series against India in December 2013. With his retirement from Test career he was to focus on the shorter formats at least till the ICC World Cup 2015.
Kallis did not have a good ODI series against Sri Lanka; he failed, scoring a duck, one and four. He did not bowl either. He decided to hang up his boots after this poor series. In the previous ODI series against India in South Africa, too, his performance was not attractive: he scored just 10 and 10 in the two ODIs he played in. On the occasion of his exit from the International cricket arena, below is a small statistical analysis on his ODI career.
Jacques Kallis had made his ODI debut on January 9, 1996 against England at Cape Town. In his 19-year long ODI career he played 328 matches scoring 11,579 runs, picking up 273 wickets and holding 131 catches. He averaged 44.36 with bat and 31.79 with ball. The table below lists breaking up of his career into four parts.
Kallis’ ODI career – five year blocks
Period
M
R
Bat Ave
100s
50s
Wickets
Bowl Ave
3WIs
MoMs
1996 to 2000
116
3850
41.84
5
27
102
30.01
9
15
2001 to 2005
112
4104
47.17
8
29
99
33.96
10
9
2006 to 2010
79
3048
49.96
4
24
58
31.70
5
8
2011 to 2014
21
577
27.47
0
6
14
29.71
0
0
Overall
328
11579
44.36
17
86
273
31.79
24
32
Kallis’ ODI batting performance was not up to his mark only in the period of 2011 to 2014 compared to his statistics in the previous years (though his bowling never dipped). Of his 32 Man of the Match awards 15 came in his first five years (of which 14 had come just in three years — 6 in 1998, 3 in 1999 and 5 in 2000).
Kallis’ ODI career – year by year
Year
M
R
Bat Ave
100s
50s
Wickets
Bowl Ave
3WIs
MoMs
1996
14
275
30.55
0
1
4
40.50
1
1
1997
15
519
39.92
0
5
4
74.25
0
6
1998
22
812
45.11
3
2
19
24.47
2
3
1999
26
944
41.04
2
8
29
26.96
4
5
2000
39
1300
44.82
0
11
46
29.47
2
2
2001
19
848
56.53
2
5
20
31.25
1
2
2002
33
1204
44.59
1
10
42
28.33
4
3
2003
17
595
54.09
2
3
14
43.42
2
2
2004
18
770
59.23
3
4
11
39.63
2
0
2005
25
687
32.71
0
7
12
42.00
1
1
2006
14
373
31.08
1
1
17
23.58
2
3
2007
27
987
58.05
1
7
19
35.05
1
1
2008
14
557
55.70
1
5
7
26.14
0
1
2009
12
538
44.83
0
5
4
71.75
0
2
2010
12
593
59.30
1
6
11
27.45
2
0
2011
10
370
37.00
0
4
8
27.12
0
0
2012
4
126
31.50
0
1
3
25.66
0
0
2013
4
76
19.00
0
1
3
40.66
0
0
2014
3
5
1.66
0
0
–
–
–
0
Overall
328
11579
44.36
17
86
273
31.79
24
32
Opposition-wise distribution:
Opposition
Matches
Runs
Avg
100s
50s
Best
Wickets
Avg
Best
Asia XI
2
8
4.00
0
0
4
3
14.00
3/42
Australia
50
1660
34.58
1
13
104*
34
47.97
3/30
Bangladesh
7
287
57.40
0
2
69
5
22.00
4/33
Canada
1
1
1.00
0
0
1
0
–
–
England
38
1054
31.93
1
8
107
25
33.44
3/48
India
37
1535
61.40
2
11
119*
31
36.22
3/3
Ireland
3
131
65.50
0
1
66*
3
20.33
2/20
Kenya
8
360
90.00
0
4
92*
5
34.00
2/27
Netherlands
3
147
147.00
1
0
128*
2
33.50
2/19
New Zealand
45
1449
40.25
3
9
111
37
29.62
3/23
Pakistan
42
1273
42.43
1
11
109*
42
29.64
5/41
Scotland
1
–
–
–
–
–
0
–
–
Sri Lanka
36
1434
46.25
3
10
113*
31
29.74
3/20
UAE
1
–
–
–
–
–
0
–
–
West Indies
40
1666
50.48
4
12
139
42
23.02
5/30
Zimbabwe
14
574
57.40
1
5
125*
13
27.00
3/47
Overall
328
11579
44.36
17
86
139
273
31.79
5/30
Venue-wise distribution:
Venue
Matches
Runs
Best
Bat Ave
100s
50s
W
BBI
Bowl Ave
Home
142
5178
139
46.64
6
40
116
5/41
32.61
Away
107
3712
107
40.79
7
29
79
4/22
34.89
Neutral
79
2689
128*
45.57
4
17
78
5/30
27.43
Overall
328
11579
139
44.36
17
86
273
5/30
31.79
Match result-wise distribution:
Result
M
R
Bat Ave
100s
50s
HS
W
Bowl Ave
BBI
Won
210
8036
51.18
13
58
139
190
26.47
5/30
Lost
103
3218
33.52
4
24
107
72
46.56
3/20
Tied
5
225
45
0
3
71
6
27.5
3/41
No Result / Abandoned
10
100
33.33
0
1
54
5
26.2
3/8
Some statistical notes on Kallis in ODIs
– Kallis became the youngest South African to score an ODI century when he scored his maiden ODI century of 111 against New Zealand at Perth on January 16, 1998 at an age of 22 years 92 days. He beat Hansie Cronje’s record, who had done the same at 24 years 147 days. Kallis’ record has been broken recently by Quinton de Kock. Kallis is still the second youngest South African to score an ODI century.
– Kallis had eight scores in nervous-nineties – four out and four not out. He is fifth in the list of most nervous-nineties scores in ODIs behind Sachin Tendulkar (18), Aravinda de Silva (9), Grant Flower (9) and Nathan Astle (9).
– Kallis has involved in 50 century partnerships in his ODI career. He is one among eight batsmen to have 50 or more century partnerships in ODIs.
– 25440 runs were scored by South Africa batsmen (including Kallis) when Jacques Kallis was at crease. Only Sachin Tendulkar (37464), Ponting (25943) and Sangakkara(26868) have involved in more partnership runs in ODIs.
– 366 wickets fell when Jacques Kallis was batting at crease. He is fourth on the list of players watching most dismissals from other end after Tendulkar (481), Sangakkara (385) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (373).
– Kallis is only the second player after Sanath Jayasuriya to do a double of 10,000 runs and 250 wickets in his ODI career.
– Jacques Kallis has achieved the double of 250 runs and 10 wickets in an ODI series/tournament twice in his career (In bilateral ODI series in West Indies in 2000/01 and in VB series in Australia in 2001/02). Viv Richards and Andrew Symonds are the only others to achieve the same in two series/tournaments.
– Kallis has scored 7774 runs batting at position no.3 in his ODI career. Only Ponting (12622) and Sangakkara (8319) have scored more ODI runs batting at No.3. Kallis’ average of 45.72 batting at no.3 is, however, higher than Ponting or Sangakkara.
– Kallis’ batting average of 44.36 is second highest among all those who scored 8,500 or more runs. Sachin Tendulkar (44.83) has higher batting average than Kallis.
– Kallis has received 32 Man of the Match awards in his ODI career of 328 matches. Only Tendulkar (62) and Jayasuriya (48) have got more Man of the Match awards than Kallis in Odis.
Kallis scored 1300 runs in the 2001 with 11 half centuries and no century. It was then the record for highest number of runs in a calendar year in ODIs without a century, but has been overhauled recently by Misbah-ul-Haq in 2013 as he scored 1373 runs with 15 half centuries.
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