Kallis reaches milestone

Jacques Kallis Joins 10000-run Club

Sydney: With the 16th run of his 60 at the SCG, Kallis - South Africa's leading run-getter in both Tests and ODIs -became the eighth to 10,000 runs in ODIs. With 12 more needed to reach 10,000 in Tests, he is all set to become the fifth to achieve the mark in both formats when South Africa host Australia next month - Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Rahul Dravid are the others in the club.

For over a decade now Kallis has been a regular feature of the South African line-up, and besides his solid presence at the crease he is also a more-than-handy medium-pacer and a reliable fielder, especially in the slips. With nearly 20,000 runs and 500 wickets in international cricket, besides 246 catches, Kallis' numbers are staggering, whatever the critics might throw at him.

• Jacques Kallis became the first South African and eighth in the history of ODIs to amass 10,000-runs.
• Kallis is the second all-rounder to aggregate 10K runs and bag more than 200 wickets in One day international. Sri Lanka's opener Jayasuriya was the first to do it.
• Jacques' feat to reaching ten thousand runs in 272 innings is the fourth fastest in ODIS. Tendulkar (259) have taken the least number of innings to each the milestone, followed by Sourav Ganguly (263) adn Ricky Ponting (266).

Players who have scored more than 10000 runs in the ODIs

Player	Matches	I	NO	Runs	Hs	Ave	100	50
Tendulkar	419	409	38	16422	186*	44.26	42	90
Jayasuriya	426	414	18	12918	189	32.62	27	67
Inzamam	378	350	53	11739	137*	39.52	10	83
Ganguly	311	300	23	11363	183	41.02	22	72
Ponting	304	295	35	11252	164	43.27	26	65
Dravid	333	308	40	10585	153	39.49	12	81
Lara	299	289	32	10405	169	40.48	19	63
Kallis	286	272	51	10044	139	45.44	16	71

7500 runs and 250 wickets in international cricket

Player	Matches	Runs	Average	Wickets	Average	Catches
Sanath Jayasuriya	546	20,199	34.88	418	35.74	197
Steve Waugh	493	18,496	41.65	287	35.56	223
Jacques Kallis	418	20,075	49.20	498	31.50	246
Kapil Dev	356	9031	27.53	687	28.83	135
Carl Hooper	329	11,523	35.89	307	41.01	235
Chris Cairns	279	8273	30.75	420	31.08	81
Imran Khan	263	7516	35.45	544	24.08	64

Note: This is only a listing and players have been ordered by matches played.

Best ODI batting average (minimum 4000 runs)

Player	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike-rate	100s/50s
Michael Bevan	196	6912	53.58	74.16	6/46
Viv Richards	167	6721	47.00	90.20	11/45
Jacques Kallis	272	10044	45.44	71.68	16/71
Gordon Greenidge	127	5134	45.03	64.92	11/31
Dean Jones	161	6068	44.61	72.56	7/46
Sachin Tendulkar	409	16422	44.26	85.46	42/90

Note: If the cut-off for the above table is reduced to 3000 runs, Kallis is squeezed to No. 5 by Kevin Pietersen and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.