Jacques Kallis the greatest all-rounder of South Africa team

Jacques Henry Kallis the greatest all-rounder of  South Africa team. Jacques Kalis is the player who can change the fate of South African team and he used to throw the ball by changing the speed. Jacques takes the wickets with line and length bowling. He is the backbone of South Africa in middle order. As an all-rounder he is a formidable right-handed batsman and fast-medium swingbowler. He is one of the greatest cricketers of all time, particularly all-rounders, he is the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 10,000 runs and 250 wickets in both one day and Test match cricket. he is trying to become the second highest scorer of Test centuries. He was named Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2008 Wisden for his performances in 2007 in addition to being the "ICC Test Player of the Year" and ICC Player of the Year in 2005.

 Now here is his small bio-data:    

Full name            Jacques Henry Kallis

Born                  16 October 1975 (age 35) Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa

Batting style       Right-handed

Bowling style     Right arm fast-medium

Role                     All-rounder

Kallis starting his first Test debut against England in December 1995. He scored his maiden Test century just over two years later, in his seventh Test match. In the 2003–04 series against the West Indies, Kallis scored a century in each of the four Test matches, becoming the first cricketer to pass 100 in every match of a series lasting more than three Tests. Kallis scored his first, and only, double century in Test cricket in December 2010, scoring an unbeaten 201 in the first Test against India. Prior to his double century, Kallis had been the only player in the top 15 Test run-scorers not to have reached 200.

 Career statistics:            

Competition	Test	ODI	T20I
Matches	145	307	16
Runs scored	11,947	11,002	512
Batting average	57.43	45.84	34.13
100s/50s	40/54	17/80	0/4
Top score	201*	139	73
Balls bowled	18,337	10,270	186
Wickets	270	259	5
Bowling average	32.01	31.90	45.80
5 wickets in innings	5	2	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0
Best bowling	6/54	5 /30	2/20
Catches/stumpings	166/–	116/–	6/–

Kallis is not only a great batsman he is also a good bowler. Now he is in the second position in ICC test ranking  &  eight position in ICC ODI ranking. ICC World cup is coming soon so, there is a lot of  expectation to him that he will show his best performance in this tournament. Kalis having held the same ranking in ODIs for the best part of 3 years. During this time, "Kallis blossomed into arguably the world's leading batsman, with a defensive technique second-to-none, and the adhesive qualities of a Cape Point limpet. Generally a placid and undemonstrative man, he nailed down the crucial No. 3 position in the South African batting order after a number of players had been tried and discarded, and his stock rose exponentially from that moment.

Achievements:

1.Test Batting: career best 1st; career high points 935

2.Test Bowling: career best 6th; career high points 742

3.Test All-rounders: career best 1st; career high points 615

4.ODI Batting: career best 1st; career high points 817

5.ODI Bowling: career best 11th; career high points 641

6.ODI All-rounders: career best 1st; career high points 506