Kallis walks into record books
Jacques Kallis hit 26 in South Africa's victory over Zimbabwe
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Monday, 18, Sep 2006 09:21
South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis batted his way into the record books today as he became the first player in cricketing history to have scored 8,000 runs and taken two hundred wickets in both Test and one-day forms of the game.
Kallis, 30, needed just one run to reach the 8,000-run landmark in the second one-day international against Zimbabwe.
But he was made to wait before notching up his record, as Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat first in the day-night match in East London.
The lacklustre African side, who had lost the first one-day game by five wickets, produced an even worse batting performance, being bowled out for 152 with Chamu Chibhabha's 38 enough to make him the innings' top-scorer.
Kallis took 2-22, taking his one-day wicket tally to 207, while Andrew Hall finished with 3-23. Makhaya Ntini and Robin Peterson also claimed two Zimbabwean scalps in the rout.
In reply South Africa failed to knock off the runs as they should have done, slipping to 72-3 at one stage before Justin Kemp and Jean-Paul Duminy came to the rescue. Despite the four wickets the host side romped home in the end, hitting 156-4 from 27.4 overs at a run rate of 5.63.
It was Kallis who took the plaudits, however. His one-day cumulative score has reached 8,025 runs from 233 matches, while his Test match tally is 8,033 runs at an average of 55.78. He has taken exactly 200 wickets in Tests, making him, statistically at least, one of the best players ever to have graced the international cricketing arena.