Kallis and the double-century problem

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Indexed  February 7, 2010

A few years ago, when I was writing my old sports column The 12th Man, we were sitting around bitching about Jacques Kallis one day when an Aussie came on and asked why we were always giving Jakes such a hard time.His argument was that Kallis is the best batsman South Africa has ever had, to go with his impressive bowling stats. He couldn’t understand why we didn’t have our tongues buried eight feet up Jakes’ ass.He had a point. But he also missed one.There’s no arguing the stats, which tell you Kallis is indeed the finest cricketer ever to have represented South Africa. Not just the stats either - many a commentator has groaned in ...   See the complete post here