Year in review: Top tweets of 2013

Jacques Kallis’s retirement

Indian players with the guard of honour for Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis, one of the best all-rounder in cricket and probably the best of the lot. Kallis announced his retirement just before the 2nd Test against India at Durban. He scored a classy 115 against the Indian bowling attack on his last Test.

Here are some of the best tweets on King Kallis’s retirement:

Indian players forming a guard of honour for Kallis:

Now this is some stat:

Captain Graeme Smith with an emotional good bye in his last Test

A tweet on low turn out for Kallis’s last Test:

Sir Gary Sobers and King Kallis will have a longer CV than every other cricketer

— shishir hattangadi (@shishhattangadi) December 29, 2013

Jacques kallis fitting farewell what a way to end the career! pic.twitter.com/9Uu9X1HI5E — Sampath Kumar M S (@SampathRedDevil) December 29, 2013

Kallis has hit a Test Century in every calendar year since he scored his first century in 1997 (1997-2013, 17 years!) @mohanstatsman — Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) December 30, 2013

Jacques #Kallis struck an emotional farewell century to become the third highest Test run-scorer pic.twitter.com/A70I8Se6cv

— Sadam shahani (@Sadam_Shahani) December 29, 2013

There is empty stands in Durban in Kallis farewell match, because even SA audiences stopped watching cricket after Sachin’s retirement.

— EngiNerd (@mainbhiengineer) December 30, 2013