Milestones and Records achieved by Jacques Kallis in his final Test

Jacques Kallis scored a classy 115 against India in his last Test

Jacques Kallis is the only player to add 1000+ runs with 10 different partners in Test cricket. Next best are Chanderpaul and Ponting who have 1000+ partnership runs with 8 players each.

# Jacques Kallis’s half century in this innings was his 150th half century in his international career.

# Kallis, when he reached 80 runs, completed 7000 Test runs at Home. He became only the 3rd cricketer after Ponting (7578) and Tendulkar (7216) to reach the landmark.

Most Test runs at home venues:7578 – Ricky Ponting at an average of 56.977216 – Sachin Tendulkar at an average of 52.677035 – Jacques Kallis at an average of 56.736846 – Mahela Jayawardene at an average of 61.126217 – Brian Lara at an average of 58.65

# Kallis, when he reached 82 runs, completed 9000 Test runs batting at No.4 in his 170th inning. After Sachin Tendulkar (13492) he is the only one to reach the milestone. Sachin Tendulkar scored 13492 in 275 innings.

Most Test runs batting at No.4:13492 – Sachin Tendulkar at an average of 54.409033 – Jacques Kallis at an average of 61.868656 – Mahela Jayawardene at an average of 52.467535 – Brian Lara at an average of 51.256925 – Javed Miandad at an average of 54.10

# Jacques Kallis’ Century (115 off 316):

* It was his 62nd international century, 62nd first class century, 45th in Tests, 35th at No.4, 34th in Team’s 1st innings, 23rd at home, 14th in match’s 2nd innings, 7th vs India, 1st in 2013.

* Kallis with 23 Test centuries at home equaled Ponting’s record of most Test centuries at home.

Most Test 100s at home venues:23 – Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis22 – Sachin Tendulkar, Mahela Jayawardene21 – Matthew Hayden, Kumar Sangakkara

* Only 3 batsmen scored Test 100s vs India more than Kallis:

8 – Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Ricky Ponting7 – Everton Weekes, Clive Lloyd, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Jacques Kallis

* Kallis became the 34th batsman and 4th South African to score a century in career’s last Test Match. 2 out of 3 other South African scored in South Africa’s last Test match before being banned from international cricket and one was in the last match before the World War II.

125 PGV van der Bijl vs England, Durban, March 1939126 BA Richards vs Australia, Port Elizabeth, March 1970102 BL Ervine vs Australia, Port Elizabeth, March 1970

* With this century in 2013, Kallis continued his long streak of scoring centuries in every single year in Tests since 1997 (the year in which he scored his first Test 100). He is the only player to score a century every single year in last 17 years. Dravid did it for 15 years (1997 to 2011) and also Jayawardene (1998-2012) but he is yet to score a century this year to continue the sequence.

* Kallis at score of 115 runs became the 3rd highest run getter in Test cricket.Leading Run Getters in Test Cricket:15921 – Sachin Tendulkar13378 – Ricky Ponting13289 – Jacques Kallis13288 – Rahul Dravid11953 – Brian Lara

* Kallis’ strike rate in this innings was 36.39. It is his 4th lowest strike rate in a century innings. Other 3 are:31.50 – 109* (346) vs WI, Georgetown, March 200533.53 – 110 (328) vs WI, Cape Town, January 199936.20 – 101 (279) vs Australia, Melbourne, December 1997 (Maiden 100)

South Africa eventually went onto win this Test match by 10 wickets.

# This innings turned out to be 50th 50+ score for Jacques Kallis in Test wins. Only Ricky Ponting (72) has more 50+ scores in Test wins.

Most 50+ scores in Test wins:72 (30 100s + 42 50s) – Ricky Ponting50 (22 100s + 28 50s) – Jacques Kallis50 (25 100s + 25 50s) – Steve Waugh44 (20 100s + 24 50s) – Sachin Tendulkar43 (15 100s + 28 50s) – Mark Waugh

# Jacques Kallis, with the final win, featured in 53 Test wins for South Africa in South Africa. He equaled Glenn McGrath as the 2nd highest number wins at home. Only Ponting featured in more wins.

Featuring in most Test wins at home venues:67 – Ricky Ponting53 – Glenn McGrath, Jacques Kallis52 – Sachin Tendulkar49 – Steve Waugh, Shane Warne

These all were just the records and milestones achieved by Kallis in his final Test Match.

Finally, the Cricket World has seen the retirement of all the top 5 batting legends of the modern era in longer version of the game.(All stats updated till 30th December 2013)