JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s allrounder Jacques Kallis crossed a milestone of 10,000 runs in Test cricket here on Friday in the first innings of the fourth Test against Australia.Kallis became the first South African batsman and the eighth in Test history to score 10,000 runs or more in Test career.
Besides, he has become the only cricketer to make 10,000 runs and taking 250 wickets in Test cricket. He also held more than 100 catches as fielder to get perfection.
The highest run-getter in Test cricket is India’s Sachin Tendulkar with 12,429 runs in 156 matches, followed by Brian Lara of the West Indies, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Rickey Ponting of Australia, and Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar of India.
Kallis is the most prominent batsman among all the eight members of 10,000-club on the basis of average with 54.42.
He is the only batsman after Sir Donald Bradman for hitting hundreds in five consecutive Test matches.
Kallis has recently crossed another milestone of 10,000 runs in One-day International cricket. He has made 10,000 runs and took 200 wickets in this form of cricket, too.
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