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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 the greatest all-rounder ever to play the game, he is a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler. As of 2022, 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 2,490,314 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jacques Kallis is the 44th most popular cricketer (down from 40th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 288th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Cricketer.

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Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Jacques Kallis ranks 44 out of 68Before him are Inzamam-ul-Haq, Suresh Raina, AB de Villiers, Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, and Matthew Hayden. After him are Shoaib Malik, Mahela Jayawardene, Ravichandran Ashwin, Gary Kirsten, Zaheer Khan, and Ambati Rayudu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Jacques Kallis ranks 920Before him are Daniel Santos, Tom Dolan, Makoto Okubo, Takaaki Tokushige, Adam Deadmarsh, and Jun Mizukoshi. After him are Marty Turco, Hiroyasu Kawakatsu, Meb Keflezighi, Akinori Kosaka, Nivaldo Lourenço da Silva, and Valentyna Shevchenko.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Jacques Kallis ranks 335 out of 374Before him are James Thompson (1986), Shu-Aib Walters (1981), Adam Rose (1979), Neil Broad (1966), Okkert Brits (1973), and Sunette Viljoen (1983). After him are Hezekiél Sepeng (1974), Senzo Meyiwa (1984), Gary Kirsten (1967), Wayne Odesnik (1985), Calvin Marlin (1976), and Karin Melis Mey (1983).

Among CRICKETERS In South Africa

Among cricketers born in South Africa, Jacques Kallis ranks 2Before him are AB de Villiers (1984). After him are Gary Kirsten (1967), Hashim Amla (1983), Kevin Pietersen (1980), Dale Steyn (1983), and Quinton de Kock (1992).

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