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If statistics don’t lie, that would that make Jacques Kallis the greatest cricketer of this generation? Since making his debut for South Africa in 1995, Kallis has scored over 12,000 Test runs at an average 57.02; a batting record matching that of Ricky Ponting.
To go with these runs, Kallis has 274 Test wickets at a more than useful average of 32.51.
Kallis has also excelled in the one-day arena. With an excellent average of 45.55 Kallis has scored over 11,000 ODI runs, to go along with another 267 wickets.
To score over 10,000 runs in both Tests and ODIs is a great achievement, including over 250 wickets in each format.
The mental and physical fitness showed by Kallis is something very special, and if you also take into account his 300 international catches, his record is even more incredible.
The only player in the history that can match these statistics is the legendary Sir Garfield Sobers. The two share similar Test records with Sobers shading Kallis in the batting department and Kallis slightly ahead in the bowling.
The statistics don’t lie: his batting record over the past decade and a half that matches those of Ponting, Lara, Dravid and Tendulkar, while his bowling is not matched by any all-rounder of this time.
With an overall record which matches that of the greatest all-rounder in the history of cricket, Kallis must be one of the greatest cricketers of this generation, if not the greatest.
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