Jacques Kallis, South Africa – Player profile

Don’t be fooled by commentators or newspaper articles describing Jacques Kallis as an all-rounder – he’s not. Sure, he used to be, but he isn’t any more and no-one’s noticed.

Jacques Kallis is technically a masterful batsman, but your heart won’t race watching him, unless you’ve somehow trained it to race out of the room to make a cup of tea while you slip into a coma. Jacques Kallis can bowl. He doesn’t like doing it and we don’t like him doing it either.

Knowing our luck, Jacques Kallis will probably win South Africa the World Cup, but if he wins it for them, it will never be worth winning again. It will be sullied.

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