Jacques Kallis broke numerous records during his final Test

Kallis had lot of milestones and records to aim for during his last Test.

 

By Bharath Seervi

 

Jacques Henry Kallis, the greatest all-rounder of the modern game bid adieu to Test cricket after the second Test against India at Durban. It ended where it all started for him, back in 1995 against England. Kallis was struggling for form throughout 2013. Before taking the field in his 166th and final Test of his career, he was averaging a meagre 17.63 in seven Tests. It was a challenge for him to finish on a high and make his swansong a memorable one.

 

Kallis had lot of milestones and records to aim for during his last Test. Being the complete cricketer, one can find his name in many categories. Let us have a look at some of the records Kallis broke during the Durban Test:

 

 — On Day Two of the second Test, i.e. December 27, 2013, off the fifth ball of 108th over, Kallis caught Ravindra Jadeja off the bowling of JP Duminy to record his 200th Catch. He became only the second player to take 200 or more catches as a non-wicketkeeper. Rahul Dravid was the first man to do so and incidentally took his 200th catch at the same venue exactly three years ago i.e. December 27, 2010. 

 

 — The catch was also his 336th in international cricket. It put him at par with Dravid as have the third most number of catches as non-wicketkeepers in international cricket.

 

 

Most catches by non-wicketkeepers in Test cricket

 

Player	Ct
Rahul Dravid	210
Jacques Kallis	200
Ricky Ponting	196
Mahela Jayawardene	194
Mark Waugh	181

 

 

Most catches by non-wicketkeepers in International Cricket

 

Player	Ct
Mahela Jayawardene	409
Ricky Ponting	364
Rahul Dravid	336
Jacques Kallis	336
Stephen Fleming	306

 

 — Jacques Kallis came to bat at No 4, his usual spot in the South African Test line-up.  It was his 85th innings at No 4 in Tests at home. He overtook Jayawardene (84) and is now only behind (138) for the most innings at No 4 in home Tests.

 

— Off the fifth ball of 44th over, Kallis and AB de Villiers completed 3000 partnerships runs. De Villiers is the third batsman with whom Kallis has added 3000 or more partnership runs in Test Cricket. The other two are Hashim Amla (3923) and Gary Kirsten (3592).

 — Kallis and de Villiers completed their 100-run stand in the 65th over of the first innings.  It was Kallis’ 69th 100-run partnership in Tests. He overtook Shivnarine Chanderpaul (68) to occupy the fourth position in the list of most century partnerships.  The leaders of that table are Dravid (88), Tendulkar (86) and Ricky Ponting (85).

 

— Off the last ball of 86th over, Kallis aggregated 28000 partnership runs i.e. South Africa have scored 28000 runs with Kallis at the crease. It is the 3third highest aggregate after Dravid (32010) and Tendulkar (31144).

 

— Kallis added two 50-run stands in the first innings at Durban —  58 with Duminy and 83 with Dale Steyn. Thus, Kallis has been involved in 128 50-run stands in his Test career. He has also been a part of 69 100+ partnerships.

 

— Kallis has seen 337 dismissals at the other end while at the crease. Chanderpaul, Rahul Dravid, Tendulkar, Steve Waugh and Border are the only ones who have seen more wickets fall while at the crease.

 

— Kallis is the only player to add 1000+ runs with 10 different partners in Test Cricket. Next best are Chanderpaul and Ponting, who have 1000+ partnership runs with eight players each.

 

A Summary of Kallis’s partnerships in Test cricket:

 

Partners	Partnerships	R	NO	Ave	100s	50s	50+	HS
50	613	28121	36	48.4	69	128	197	377*

 

Most Partnership Runs in Test Cricket

 

Player	R
Rahul Dravid	32101
Sachin Tendulkar	31144
Jacques Kallis	28121
Ricky Ponting	27245
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	25546

 

 

Most Partnerships in Test Cricket

 

Player	Partnerships
Rahul Dravid	738
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	716
Sachin Tendulkar	675
Allan Border	617
Jacques Kallis	613

 

Most 50+ Partneships in Test Cricket

 

Player	Partnerships
Rahul Dravid	214
Sachin Tendulkar	212
Jacques Kallis	197
Ricky Ponting	197
Allan Border	167
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	167

 

Most Dismissals at the Other End

 

Player	Dismissals
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	481
Rahul Dravid	453
Allan Border	364
Sachin Tendulkar	350
Steve Waugh	348
Jacques Kallis	337

 

 — When Kallis reached the score of 80, he completed 7000 Test runs at home. He became only the third batsman after Ponting (7578) and Tendulkar (7216) to reach the landmark.

 

Most Test Runs at Home Venues

 

Player	R	Ave
Ricky Ponting	7578	56.97
Sachin Tendulkar	7216	52.67
Jacques Kallis	7035	56.73
Mahela Jayawardene	6846	61.12
Brian Lara	6217	58.65

 

 — When Kallis reached the score of 82, he completed 9000 Test Runs batting at No 4 in his 170th innings. After Sachin Tendulkar (13492) he is the only one to reach the milestone. Sachin Tendulkar scored 13492 in 275 innings at the spot.

 

Most Test Runs Batting at No 4

 

Player	R	Ave
Sachin Tendulkar	13492	54.4
Jacques Kallis	9033	61.86
Mahela Jayawardene	8656	52.46
Brian Lara	7535	51.25
Javed Miandad	6925	54.1

 

The Kallis century

 

 — It was his 62nd International ton, 62nd First-Class Century, 45th in Tests, 35th at No 4, 34th in South Africa’s first innings, 23rd at Home, 14th in the game’s second innings, seventh against  and his first in 2013.

 

— Kallis has 23 Test centuries at home and is level with Ponting on that front.

 

Most Test 100s at Home Venues

 

Player	100s
Ricky Ponting	23
Jacques Kallis	23
Sachin Tendulkar	22
Mahela Jayawardene	22
Mathew Hayden	21
Kumar Sangakkara	21

 

 — Only three batsmen have scored more Test tons against India that Kallis.

 

Most Test tons against India

 

Player	100s
Garry Sobers	8
Viv Richards	8
Ricky Ponting	8
Everton Weekes	7
Clive Lloyd	7
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	7
Jacques Kallis	7

 

 — Kallis became the 34th batsman and the fourth South African to score a century in his last Test Match. Two our of the three other South Africans scored those tons before their isolation. One of those tons came before the second World War.

 

South Africans who have scored tons in their last Test

 

Batsman	Score	Opposition	Year
P van der Bijl	125	England	1939
Barry Richards	126	Australia	1970
Lee Ervine	102	Australia	1970
Jacques Kallis	115	India	2013

 

 

— With this century in 2013, Kallis continued his long streak of scoring Test tons every year since 1997 (the year in which he scored his first Test 100). He is the only player to score a century every year in last 17 years. Dravid did it for 15 years (1997-2011). Jayawardene has done it from 1998 to 2012, but is yet to score a ton this year.

 

— When he reached 115, Kallis became the third highest run-getter in Test cricket as he went past Dravid’s tally.

 

Leading Run Getters in Test Cricket

 

Player	R
Sachin Tendulkar	15,921
Ricky Ponting	13,378
Jacques Kallis	13,289
Rahul Dravid	13,288
Brian Lara	11,953

 

 — Kallis’s strike rate during his last innings was 36.39. It is his 4th lowest strike rate in a century

 

— South Africa eventually went onto win this Test match by 10 wickets. This inning turned out to be Kallis’s 50th 50+ score in Test victories alone.. Only Ponting (72) has more 50+ scores in Test wins.

 

Most 50+ scores in Test wins 

 

Player	50s	100s	Total
Ricky Ponting	42	30	72
Jacques Kallis	28	22	50
Steve Waugh	25	25	50
Sachin Tendulkar	24	20	44
Mark Waugh	28	15	43

 

 —  Kallis featured in his 53rd Test victory at home. .. Only Ponting featured in more home victories.

 

Players Featuring in most Test wins at home

 

Player	Wins
Ricky Ponting	67
Glenn McGrath	53
Jacques Kallis	53
Sachin Tendulkar	52
Steve Waugh	49
Shane Warne	49

 

 

(Bharath Seervi is a cricket statistician who is obsessed with digging numbers, facts and records related to the game. An active member of Society of Cricket Statisticians of India, he blogs at www.cricketseervistats.blogspot.com. He can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SeerviBharath and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SeerviCricket)

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