http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377 all praise for Jacques Kallis – Cricket News Update
At the end of an illustrious career, Ricky Ponting, the former Australian skipper, looks back at some of his toughest opponents and was all praise for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692, who is considered to be one of the finest all-rounders of the history of the game.
The Tasmanian is of the view that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brian-Charles-Lara-c48471 are among the greatest players of the modern era but feels that Kallis is also in the same category. The South African’s ability to deliver the goods with the ball gives him an added advantage over others.
“It's hard to separate the class of player - you've got to put Kallis in that bracket as well. You put his wickets on top of what he's done with the bat,” said the former Aussie skipper. “He came out the other day to bat and I looked at the board and he was averaging 57 in Test cricket. That's remarkable considering the amount he's had to bowl and all that sort of stuff.”
Kallis made his international debut in 1995 and has been a permanent member of the South African team in all formats of the game since then. The 37-year-old cricketer has so far played 158 Tests, 321 One Day Internationals and 25 T20s for his country, having scored more than 25 thousand runs at the ultimate level of the game, with an astonishing batting average. The top-order batsman has 61 international centuries under his belt to go with 146 fifties.
On top of that, the cricketer from Cape Town is more than handy with the ball as he has picked up in excess of 550 victims at the global stage.
After the last match of his career against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Perth, Ponting feels lucky to have played alongside a number of great players in the previous two decades. The former Kangaroos’ captain himself is termed as one of the legends of the sport, which is a source of immense satisfaction for the out-going top-order batsman.
“I've been pretty blessed to play in the era I've played with so many great batsmen, and if my name gets mentioned among them, then that's great,” Ponting expressed.
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