Jacques Kallis

Jacques Henry Kallis OIS is a South African cricket coach and former professional cricketer. As a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler, he was voted as the greatest cricketer of the 21st Century by a panel of esteemed former cricketers. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and as one of the greatest all-rounders ever to play the game. As of 2026, Kallis is the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket. He has also taken 131 ODI catches. He scored 13,289 runs in his Test match career, took 292 wickets, and 200 catches. Kallis scored 45 Test match centuries and is the fourth highest test match run scorer in history. Kallis won 23 Man-of-the-Match awards, the most by any player in Test history.