Monday, May 02, 2005

Kallis surpasses Kirsten

Jacques Kallis became the leading run-scorer for South Africa during his innings of 147 in the first innings of St.John’s Test against West Indies. Already the highest run-scorer for South Africa in shorter version of the game, Kallis surpassed Gary Kirsten’s aggregate of 7,289 runs in Test cricket. Incidentally Kallis did so in 8 Tests and 21 innings lesser than Kirsten. With his 147 Kallis also became the leading century maker for South Africa breaking the previous record of 21 centuries also held by Kirsten.
 
Performance against each opponent:
Opp Tests Inns NO Runs Hs Ave 100 50 0
Aus 12 23 2 685 101 32.62 1 4 1
Eng 20 32 2 1412 162 47.07 5 6 4
Ind 6 11 4 579 121 82.71 1 4 -
NZ 9 15 3 817 160 68.08 3 3 1
Pak 8 12 - 456 105 38.00 1 2 -
SL 12 21 2 639 87 33.63 - 5 1
WI 18 32 8 1856 177 77.33 7 9 2
Zim 6 7 3 679 189*169.75 3 3 -
BD 2 2 2 214 139* - 1 1 -
TOTAL93 155 26 7337 189* 56.87 22 37 9
home 49 78 14 3855 177 60.23 12 21 4
away 44 77 12 3482 189* 53.56 10 16 5

Kallis’ record in ODIs
Mts Inns NO Runs Hs Ave. 100 50 0
210 201 36 7495 139 45.42 13 51 10