Delhi: Australia’s great cricketer and former captain Ricky Ponting has named a former South African cricketer, ignoring Indian batting veterans Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, who played in the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders.
Great cricketer
Ponting has described Kallis as “the best cricketer” ever. When “Who is the greatest player of cricket?” When asked, he took the name of Jack Kallis.
Ponting’s statement
Ponting said, “Jack Kallis is the best cricketer who ever played. I do not care about anyone else. 13,000 runs, 44 or 45 Test centuries, and 300 wickets, any of these careers would have been excellent. They have both things. He was a natural cricketer. Slips had anothodox, but they never left a catch. His technique was a bit strange, but he caught every ball. I think he is the best and most underated cricketer because he does not talk much about him. Perhaps because of his personality and nature. He does not live in much limelight. “
Great career of Kallis
Kallis played 166 Tests, 328 ODIs and 25 T20I matches in a 19 -year -long international career from 1995 to 2014. He scored 13,289 runs in Tests, 11,579 runs in ODIs and 666 runs in T20I. Apart from this, he took 292 wickets in Tests, 273 in ODIs and 12 wickets in T20I. He is the third largest run scorer in Test cricket and is in eighth position in ODIs.
Most catch in Test cricket
As a fielder, Kallis took 338 catches in 519 international matches, which is the fourth highest for any player. He is one of the four players who have caught more than 200 catches in Test cricket.
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Play in IPL for Kolkata and Bangalore
In the IPL, Kallis was a part of Royal Challengers Bangalore from 2008 to 2010 and then joined Kolkata Knight Riders from 2011 to 2014, where he won the title twice under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir. He took 2427 runs and 65 wickets in 98 IPL matches.
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