South African allrounder Jacques Kallis scored a wonderful 111 as he combined with Ashwell Prince in a record-breaking fourth-wicket partnership of 219 in Sydney in 2006
Real recognises Real.. Two of the greatest of our times 👏👏👏what concentration & determination from Kallis he always played for the team what an all rounder & extremely under rated
Kallis and the Proteas came to my cricket club one day to prepare for a test against the Aussies in Cape Town. The bowling coach at the time, Corrie van Zyl decided to put him through his paces in the nets, the very same nets where me and my fellow cricket mates practiced every time. Me and a few other fans were standing behind the nets as he was batting and were blown away by his technique and shot selection. Van Zyl was standing close range from him, throwing balls at a million miles an hour at him. He knew what to do everytime and played every rocket fired at him with effortless grace. There was a respectful silence from everyone watching as no-one wanted to disturb him or break his concentration.
Thank you for that respect and love beyond nationality and true spirit of humanity and sport! The Pakistan greats who had put me In awe are Yonus Khan, Mohammed Yousuf, Inzammam among many others!
Kallis is the best all rounder in cricket history, I mean Benaud, Sobers, W.G. Grace and Botham all did a lot for the game, but Kallis has a massive Batting average and also has 250+ wickets to add to that. He truly is a player who could be picked on either his batting or bowling alone. He is just amazing. He was just so consistent also.
@@SilentHotdog28 but if u ask me or a common cricket enthusiast, probably Imran's name will spontaneously come up in mind in 1st or 2nd place while referring to alrounders... Anyways.. Good luck.
Sobers, by far, the best...batsman, medium fast bowler, orthodox spin bowler and chinaman bowler...NOBODY will EVER do all those facets again in test cricket.
And he scored 22 more test centuries after this.. A crazy crazy cricketer.. Above all.. Batsman bowler fielder... Best all rounder cricket has ever witnessed..
Kallis! What a player........one of the very best batsmen, bats at crucial no 4 and 250+ test wickets? Boy that's incredible. If ever there is someone most indispensable to a cricket team, it is Kallis. He is half the South African sides of his time.
The most aesthetically pleasing batsman of all times, and gilly a true gentleman of the game ,multiple videos ive seen him shake bats mens hands on their accomplishments
Say what you want but Kallis had the most Majestic cover drive to date... Its the epitome of the perfect technique of playing that shot... Everytime I see it, just sit in awe of it...
To my mind, the greatest cricketer of all time. Excelled in all forms of cricket. Definitely one of the best batters in tests, only behind Tendulkar and Ponting in runs. 250+ wickets. Could have walked into most teams just as a bowler. And then all those slip catches. A beautiful, classical batting style, but his greatest skill was adapting to conditions and circumstances. He could crash it around as well as grinding it out, and for many years he was holding up a struggling team on his own. Phenomenal focus and concentration. Various hotheads tried all sorts, but never ruffled him. King Kallis!
Seriously, I don't care where I was on the field, if I saw the legend in action, I would have run up to him and gave him a a handshake and pat on the back. Kallis is my favourite player that I saw growing up and I grew up with warne, Mcgrath, Lee, Gillespie, Mr Cricket, clarke, Ponting, Tendulkar, gavaskar, Laxman, Flintoff, sehwag, Chanderpaul, Sanga, Jaywardena, Gilchrist, I pretty much grew up with the best of all time (exluding Bradman and Sobers) But Kallis was my favourite of all. Coming from an Aussie btw, so I'm not biased in saying that, Kallis is probably the 2nd greatest cricketer of all time.
@@alarmed2542 you are A biased fan then if you pick a batsman over a player who has excelled all the departments for the best cricketer. We are talking about the best cricketer and not the best batsman.
No. This is why that statement is incorrect. Sobers was. Sobers is the greatest cricketer of all time; Donald Bradman is the greatest batsman of all time. That's the way it's been since the 1970s and the way it will be until Gary's exploits pass out of living eyewitness memory. G-Man was much more exciting than JK. Debuted against England at 17. He smashed bowling attacks in a way Kallis never did, pouncing and leaping onto that ball no matter where it pitched with a feline grace and power nobody could ever forget. So when you mean complete, did Kallis ever bowl much spin (off spin AND leggies/Chinamen; Sobers did, of course)? Did he ever hold the highest individual Test innings record or score a triple ton and hold the record for runs in a Test career? (Kallis could never build truly big scores; Sobers' 365 when he was 22 was his first Test century, I think) Did he ever hit six sixes in an over? Sobers was the first. It goes on. However, Kallis was perhaps the most consistent and dependable cricketer of all time, a brilliant run accumulator, only second behind Sachin during the last 30 years, which is of course genius in its own way. Longevity is a good thing. Then again, second wind here, Sobers has a Test batting average of 57.7 without wearing a helmet against Dennis Lillee or having the luxury of playing against teams like against Zimbabwe, like Kallis did, which is why Jacky boy got his average up to a still very impressive 55.4. Most complete? What about captaining your national side. Gary captained the Windies 1965-73 when he retired; his batting never suffered, such was his eye and powers of concentration. Kallis did a couple of Tests - that's it. He was too busy scoring centuries (and saving his team from batting collapses) Sobers wins EVERY time. (Please excuse any factual errors, incoherency or weird phrasing. This YT comment was so off the cuff, it's tearing my sleeve off.) Thank you, person who made this comment more than two years ago, in a completely different decade!
I'm a south African, so I am biased, but Kallis is the reason I love cricket, he is my favourite cricketer of all time. Yes there were better bowlers, and yes there were better batsmen. But he took 200+ catches for crying out loud. If I think back there was barely a time when he wasn't at the crease. He was always batting lol. But I am biased though so please forgive
Sobers was the greatest cricketer of all time. Master batsman fast bowler left arm spin orthodox and wrist spinner. Best fielder I ever saw and a great captain.zMost exciting batsman I ever saw and I have seen the all. of all time.
I'm also a South African, and I agree completely... A colossus of the Proteas for so long. It was around the time that he retired (and Graeme Smith a few weeks later) that South African cricket started its slide into mediocrity. Look at them now. Ranked above only Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ireland, and Afghanistan. A sad sad time for SA cricket. 😭😭
@@ishaan6426 yup, we did beat India, much to my surprise. With no big name players, either. I hope you're right, Ishaan, that this is the start of something new..( I see we're up to 5th in the ICC rankings.)
J Kallis was the greatest batsman who played the spin with utmost ease and was very useful bowler with great hand at slips. He was genuine all rounder the game has ever witnessed both in Test & ODI's, his records says it all. Very unlucky not to lift the WC trophy. He was my favorite since I saw him playing against the Aussies way back in 96'97, the 7 match ODI series.
According to me most valuable cricketer of all time One of the commentator said If there is kallis in team that means that team is playing with 12 players (this statement is enough to know his value)
I always wondered when I was a kid in those days that batsmen didn't really bowl fast and Kallis would come up batting higher up in the order to bat for hours and start bowling in the very next day, and the confusion in the name tho his name spelling is Jacques and called by commentators as Jack...Good old memories. Greatest all rounder of all time
Guess he is best over all cricketer of all times. Awesome batsman - all shots in the book, flawless technique, best temperament. Equally efficient fielder. A very good tier two bowler.
Jaques Kallis .. The man with multi talented .. He can open the batting and he can open the bowling also... Very great alrounder of all time ... We wlnt get another Kallis bcz he is most talented and clever and class player ... My childhood hero and mostly every cricket fans loves him ... Love u King Kallis ...
When you watch test matches like this compared to today you know T20 has been covid 19 to the game of cricket. No batsmen wants to score & play fearlessly. Kallis was one of his kind there won't be other like him.
2003 to 2008 was a great era of cricket. Specially test cricket in Australia. I remember Pakistan tour of Australia in 2005. Wao! my childhood memories.
As a South African I always say the same. Jacques was incredible and he makes us proud but seeing footage of Gary Sobers is amazing and they played fewer tests in those days. Sobers could bowl both pace and spin in addition to being an incredibly good batsman. I would not separate them either. That's disrespectful to Sobers but what an achievement for Jacques to be there with him.
There is something about these masters who Played in 1990's and 2000's.they are all time greats not only by numbers but they were absolute delight to watch. I am talking about Sachin Tendulkar,rahul Dravid,Brian Lara,Ricky ponting and of course Jacques Kallis. Best era of test cricket definitely.
@Bhuvan Andhole I think you started watching cricket recently that why you have no idea about those bowlers whome Sachin and Kallis had faced but I can say AB is best batsman of modern cricket.
His stance , His Big shots from the 90's cricket to entering into an another decade simply said one thing to the others i.e. he was always a defiant player it is like he wanted to control the batting game.
This is Cricket. The real cricket is Test cricket . Was fed up with these T20 leagues all over the globe. Where is the contest between the ball and bat now? IPL has destroyed the Real cricket. Jaques Kallis is a gem of a cricketer. what a technique he has. i have to look for many adjectives to describe his contribution to cricket. Good olden days of great cricket .Thank you cricket australia.
Jack Kallis looks like subcontinent player wow skill hai fast bowling aur spin bowling khelne ki Jab wo short ball pe pull karte huye NATRAJ mudra me aate hai wo mere life ka sabse memorable moment hai
