Top 10 batsmen with more than 5000 runs scored In Test matches won

Jacques Kallis – 6379 runs

Jacques Kallis was the fulcrum around which South Africa used to build its Test teams

Arguably the greatest all-rounder, at least in terms of stats, Kallis was the ever-reliable rock for South Africa for more than a decade. The elegant right-hander piled on 6379 runs at 62.5 in 124 innings from 82 Tests in winning causes, less than a hundred runs short of Steve Waugh’s mark. Overall, Kallis ended up with almost twice the runs, 13289 at 55.37 in 280 innings and 166 Tests.

In other words, half the Tests he featured in ended up being South African wins. However, Kallis was one of those players whose centuries didn’t always end up in wins. That is seen in his 22 hundreds in wins, of a total of 45. Kallis has 4836 runs in the first and second innings of Tests at 64.48, third in tally behind Ponting and Waugh.