Jacques Kallis can play for another three years, says Peter Kirsten – Cricket News Update
South Africa’s former cricketer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692 is one of the modern day greats and feels that the legendary all-rounder can continue to play international cricket for another three years.
Since making his Test debut in 1995, the 37-year-old cricketer has been a permanent member of the South African side in all formats of the game. Kallis has played a huge role in making the Proteas as one of the best teams of the world.
The great all-rounder however, is at the twilight of his illustrious career, which is the reason why he was rested for the limited-overs series against New Zealand recently, in order to refresh him for the on-going Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
While speaking to ESPNcricinfo, the former cricketer, who happens to be the elder brother of South Africa’s coach, Gary Kirsten, expressed that Kallis has the ability to contribute to the team’s cause in all three departments of the game.
Peter also believes that resting Kallis from the ODI series against the Black Caps was a deliberate move by Gary to extract maximum from the great player. Gary, who was previously coaching http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, adopted a similar sort of a strategy with the senior players.
“He is a three-in-one player, in fact, given his catching in the slips. The all-rounder spot, when Jacques does go - it's similar to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gary-Kirsten-c58527 was able to extract a lot more life out of Tendulkar, Rahul
Dravid and the likes. He's trying to do the same thing with Kallis, resting him more, not playing him in the ODIs.”
Kallis has so far scored more than 25 thousand runs at the highest stage of the game with the help of 61 centuries. On top of that, the legendary cricketer has grabbed almost 550 wickets in international cricket.
Kirsten is confident that the cricketer from Cape Town will be able to play the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754.
“I reckon Kallis can go on for at least another three years, if he is well managed, which he is being. Don't be surprised if he's around for the next World Cup in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in 2015,” the former player added.
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