Longman Kallis draws attention

BULAWAYO, SEPTEMBER 18: Jacques Kallis broke the world record for the longest time spent at the crease between dismissals on the final day of the drawn second Test between Zimbabwe and South Africa on Tuesday.

South Africa won the two-match series 1-0, having beaten Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the first Test in Harare the previous Tuesday. Zimbabwe, who had declared their first innings on 419 for nine, were 96 for three in their second innings when the captains shook hands.

Kallis, batting number three, scored a career-best 189 not out in South Africa’s first innings of 519 for eight declared. He had scored 157 not out and 42 not out in the first Test and batted for 1,028 minutes in the two test matches, breaking the record of 1,021 minutes England captain Nasser Hussain set in South Africa in 1999-2000. Kallis spent more than nine and a half hours at the crease in his innings in the second Test, facing 443 balls and hitting 19 fours and three sixes.

Kallis was named man of the match as well as man of the series for his aggregate of 388 runs without being dismissed. Left-arm spinner Ray Price took career-best figures of five for 181 and the 79 overs he bowled were a record for a Zimbabwean in a Test innings, surpassing the 67 overs leg-spinner Paul Strang sent down against Pakistan in Sheikhupura in 1996-97. (Reuters)