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Jacques Kallis

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Jacques Henry Kallis OIS (born 16 October 1975) is a South African cricket coach and former professional cricketer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and as one of the greatest all-rounders ever to play the game, he was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler. As of 2024, Kallis is the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Kallis has received more than 2,764,514 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Kallis is the 62nd most popular cricketer (down from 44th in 2019), the 391st most popular biography from South Africa (down from 334th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Cricketer.

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Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Jacques Kallis ranks 62 out of 136. Before him are Hardik Pandya, Kumar Sangakkara, Martin Crowe, David Warner, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah. After him are Zaheer Khan, Glenn McGrath, Babar Azam, Waqar Younis, Matthew Hayden, and Shoaib Malik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Jacques Kallis ranks 979. Before him are Bastian Reinhardt, Qiu Jian, Aleksey Alipov, Sean Marks, Avery John, and Michael Muhney. After him are Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Ken Iwase, Masaki Ogawa, Mercedes Margalot, Space Cowboy, and Kensaku Omori.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Jacques Kallis ranks 391 out of 454. Before him are AB de Villiers (1984), Rowen Fernández (1978), Nasief Morris (1981), Bernard Parker (1986), Luvo Manyonga (1991), and Kyle Edmund (1995). After him are Shu-Aib Walters (1981), Ryan Cox (1979), Sunette Viljoen (1983), J. R. Rotem (1975), Senzo Meyiwa (1984), and Jacques Freitag (1982).

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Among CRICKETERS In South Africa

Among cricketers born in South Africa, Jacques Kallis ranks 3. Before him are Tony Greig (1946), and AB de Villiers (1984). After him are Hashim Amla (1983), Gary Kirsten (1967), Quinton de Kock (1992), Kevin Pietersen (1980), Dale Steyn (1983), David Miller (1989), Morné Morkel (1984), Kagiso Rabada (1995), and JP Duminy (1984).

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