Jacques Kallis is a South African cricketer who plays as an all-rounder. He has been described as "the greatest cricketer ever", and is considered one of the best all-rounders of all time, along with Sir Garfield Sobers. He has scored 45 centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test cricket, the most by any South African, and 17 centuries in One Day International (ODI) matches. He leads all South African batsmen in runs in both Test and ODI cricket.

Kallis made his Test debut against England in December 1995. He scored his maiden Test century just over two years later, in his seventh Test match, making 101 against Australia. In the 2003–04 series against the West Indies, Kallis scored a century in each of the four Test matches, becoming the first cricketer to pass 100 in every match of a series lasting more than three Tests. His feat also marked the first time a South African player scored centuries in four consecutive Test matches, a run he extended in his next match, scoring 150 not out against New Zealand, to become the second player, after Sir Donald Bradman, to pass 100 in five consecutive Tests. Kallis passed Gary Kirsten as South Africa's leading run-scorer in Test cricket when he reached his 22nd century during the 2004–05 tour of the West Indies. His achievements during the 2004–05 and 2005 cricket seasons, during which time he scored six Test centuries, resulted in him being named as Test Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In October 2007 he became the fourth South African to reach 100 in both innings of a Test match when he did so against Pakistan. He scored a century in each of the following three Tests, tallying five centuries in four Test matches. In doing so, he joined Bradman, Matthew Hayden and Ken Barrington as one of just four players to have scored centuries in four consecutive Test matches on two occasions. Kallis scored his first double century in Test cricket in December 2010, scoring an unbeaten 201 in the first Test against India. Prior to his double century, Kallis had been the only player in the top 15 Test run-scorers not to have reached 200. Later during the same series, Kallis struck centuries in both innings of a match for the second time in his career, becoming the first South African to achieve the feat on two occasions. He reached his second double century, and his highest score, in 2012 against Sri Lanka, making 224.

In ODI cricket, Kallis scored his maiden century in January 1998, totalling 111 against New Zealand. He reached his highest total in ODIs against the West Indies in February 2004, scoring 139. He generally scores at slower than one run per delivery, but does score more quickly on occasions on which he reaches a century, averaging 90.24 runs per hundred balls, rather than 72.77 when he scores less than 100. His highest strike-rate when scoring a century was 117.43, achieved when he scored 128 not out against the Netherlands during the 2007 Cricket World Cup. He is the only South African to have scored over 10,000 runs in ODI cricket, while his 17 ODI centuries rank him second behind the 21 scored by Herschelle Gibbs among his countrymen.

Key * Remained not out Man of the match Captain of South Africa in that match

Test centuries +Test centuries scored by KallisScoreAgainstVenue 1 101 3 4 1/3 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Away Drawn 2 132 3 1 3/5 Old Trafford, Manchester Away Drawn 3 110 3 1 4/5 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Won 4 148* 3 2 2/3 Jade Stadium, Christchurch Away Drawn 5 115 3 2 2/2 Harare Sports Club, Harare Away Won 6 105 3 2 4/5 Newlands, Cape Town Home Won 7 160 3 1 1/3 Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein Home Won 8 157* 3 1 1/2 Harare Sports Club, Harare Away Won 9 189* 3 2 2/2 Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Away Drawn 10 139* 4 2 2/2 North West Cricket Stadium, Potchefstroom Home Won 11 105 4 1 1/2 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Won 12 158 4 1 1/4 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home Won 13 177 4 2 2/4 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Won 14 130* 4 3 3/4 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Drawn 15 130* 4 1 4/4 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home Won 16 150* 4 3 1/3 Westpac Park, Hamilton Away Drawn 17 121 4 1 2/2 Eden Gardens, Kolkata Away Lost 18 162 4 2 2/5 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Drawn 19 149 4 1 3/5 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Won 20 136* 4 3 5/5 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home Drawn 21 109* 4 3 1/4 Bourda, Georgetown Away Drawn 22 147 4 1 4/4 Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's Away Drawn 23 111 4 1 3/3 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Away Lost 24 114 4 2 2/3 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Lost 25 155 4 1 1/2 National Stadium, Karachi Away Won 26 100* 4 3 1/2 National Stadium, Karachi Away Won 27 107* 4 3 2/2 Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Away Drawn 28 186 4 3 1/2 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home Won 29 131 4 2 2/2 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home Won 30 132 4 2 2/3 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Away Won 31 102 4 2 3/3 Newlands, Cape Town Home Won 32 120 4 1 1/4 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home Drawn 33 108 4 1 3/4 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Drawn 34 173 4 1 1/2 Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Away Won 35 110 4 1 2/3 Warner Park, Basseterre Away Drawn 36 135* 4 3 1/2 Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Neutral Drawn 37 105 4 1 2/2 Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi Neutral Drawn 38 201* 4 2 1/3 SuperSport Park, Centurion Home Won 39 161 4 1 3/3 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Drawn 40 109* 5 3 3/3 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Drawn 41 224 4 1 3/3 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Won 42 113 4 2 1/3 University Oval, Dunedin Away Drawn 43 182* 4 2 1/3 The Oval, London Away Won 44 147 4 1 1/3 The Gabba, Brisbane Away Drawn 45 115 4 2 2/2 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Won

ODI centuries

+ODI centuries scored by KallisScoreAgainstVenue 1 111 3 1 79.28 WACA Ground, Perth Neutral Won 2 109* 5 1 95.61 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Won 3 113* 5 1 113.00 Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Neutral Won 4 100 3 1 85.47 Carisbrook, Dunedin Away Lost 5 100 4 1 80.00 Eden Park, Auckland Away Won 6 100* 3 2 71.94 Boland Bank Park, Paarl Home Won 7 107 3 1 99.07 Queen's Park, St. George's Away Won 8 104* 3 2 86.66 WACA Ground, Perth Away Lost 9 107 3 1 80.45 The Oval, London Away Lost 10 125* 3 1 85.03 St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Neutral Won 11 109* 4 1 115.95 Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Home Won 12 139 3 2 97.88 New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg Home Won 13 101 3 2 79.52 Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Away Lost 14 119* 3 1 74.37 Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban Home Won 15 128* 3 1 117.43 Warner Park, Basseterre Neutral Won 16 121* 3 2 90.97 St George's Park Cricket Ground, Port Elizabeth Home Won 17 104* 3 1 110.63 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Away Won

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