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#3 Jacques Kallis: Newlands Cricket Ground, 9 centuries
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The highest score of the former South African cricketer's international career came at Newlands
In the wake of the ball-tampering scandal in the second match of South Africa- Australia Test series, the NCG in Cape Town has been getting a lot of the negative spotlight recently. However, the ground has seen some incredible cricket through the years and has been privy too numerous superlative knocks.
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Jacques Kallis, arguably the greatest cricketing all-rounder of all time, stands third on this list with nine hundreds at this venue. He has scored 2181 runs in Cape Town with a batting average of 72.70, which is bolstered by 18 fifty-plus scores from him.
The highest score of the former South African cricketer's international career came at Newlands, where he played a match-winning knock of 224 against Sri Lanka in 2012.
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