Sydney, December 17: There has not been so much fuss about a rib since Adam was a lad. Jacques Kallis, to whom the broken bone of that variety belongs, yesterday demonstrated why it was all worth it.
For four weeks the state of his upper body has dominated both the likely composition of South Africa’s team given his absence in the Test series against England and their potentially cataclysmic fate in it. Eventually, after enough angst to make Kierkegaard proud, the selectors decided that one of the world’s greatest all rounders with a Test batting average of 54.66 could be accommodated as a batsman only in the first Test.
He improved that figure slightly and enhanced South Africa’s position in the match considerably with a century yesterday, the 32nd of his Test career and his sixth against England.
–Agencies