Kallis and Sobers: As different as they come
In the Australian, Gideon Haigh analyses the career of Jacques Kallis, and looks at the comparisons with Garry Sobers
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
In the Australian Gideon Haigh analyses the career of Jacques Kallis, and looks at the comparisons with Garry Sobers.
The comparison is made additionally enticing by involving two brilliant opposites: Sobers all prowling grace and feline elasticity, with his 360-degree batswing and three-in-one bowling; Kallis all looming bulk and latent power, constructed like a work of neo-brutalist architecture.
Yet what they are just as much opposites of are their respective eras. Sobers was the most explosive cricketer of a more staid age, the more mercurial because of the orthodoxy and rigidity around him; Kallis is the most stoic and remorseless cricketer of an era more ostentatious and histrionic.