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Kallis affirmed his retirement, incited by a poor run in the series against Sri Lanka, where he could oversee just five runs in three ODI innings.
Jacques Kallis will go down as one of the best all round cricketers ever.
Since making his universal introduction at 20 years old, he has been a pillar of the South African line-up in all types of the diversion," Richardson, said in an announcement.
Amid his celebrated vocation, spreading over almost two decades, Kallis played a sum of 519 internationals in which he scored 25,534 runs with 62 centuries and took 577 wickets, other than 338 gets.
"To keep up such an abnormal state of structure and wellness in worldwide cricket, is a mind boggling deed and ought to be a persuasion for more youthful era of cricketers yearning to be sectioned in the association of legends of the game.
"Jacques played the diversion in a very focused way and he can think once more on his vocation with extraordinary pride. We wish Jacques and his family well with the following energizing period of their lives," the announcement included.
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