Kallis happy with his front line role
Bloemfontein: Jacques Kallis seems more than happy with his duel role as a front-line batsman and bowler and enjoyed the cut and thrust of what turned out to be the fourth day of the first Test against Zimbabwe
Trevor Chesterfield
02-Nov-1999
Bloemfontein: Jacques Kallis seems more than happy with his duel role
as a front-line batsman and bowler and enjoyed the cut and thrust of
what turned out to be the fourth day of the first Test against
Zimbabwe.
At one stage he hit Gavin Rennie on the shoulder with a delivery which
the speed gun reading140 k/ph, and fast as any Allan Donald sent down
during an improved second innings performance in the match South
Africa won by an innings and 13 runs yesterday.
Kallis, who turned only 24 late last month, agreed he was quite happy
in the role and saw it as a challenge. And one, the man of the match
in this first Test admitted, which he was quite happily prepared to
accept.
``I have picked up a yard or two in pace and it is quite nice to be
able to bowl the way I have this match,'' he said.
It was South Africa captain Hansie Cronje?s view that Kallis was
bowling as fast as Donald and this was good for South Africa in view
of the Harare Test against Zimbabwe.
Kallis, though, did not find playing a season at county level and
coming back to South Africa for the current season as tough as many
would expect. Big and strong, the all-rounder felt he was prepared to
continue batting at three and use the new ball as long as his captain
felt it was necessary.