Year in Review: Flop Test XI of the year 2013

Jacques Kallis (South Africa)

Jacques Kallis

Matches – 7

Innings – 11

Runs – 194

Average – 17.63

Highest – 60

194 runs in 11 innings is hardly a measure of Jacques Kallis’s abilities as the greatest playing all-rounder in cricket, but the No. 1 Test team in the world certainly expects a lot more from the prolific run-getter. With age catching up fast on him, instincts say that his days may be over, now that he has failed to score a century in the entire year.

A highest score of 60 and a far worse average of 17.63 is immensely embarrassing for a cricketer of the stature of Kallis, yet South Africa remains dependant on his performance on days when the likes of Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla fail to deliver. While retiring on a high may be an enticing option, the onus really lies on Kallis to assemble the fragments and construct his innings with the same old expertise.