Sachin Tendulkar is the highest run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket. Come on! Everybody knows that. Zaheer Khan is the 5th highest wicket-taker in Tests for India with 311 wickets. What if I tell you there is a cricketer who has almost scored the same number of Test runs and has almost the same number of Test wickets? The same goes for the ODIs as well. Surprised? You wonโt be when you get to know his name. He is Jacques Kallis.

Everybody knows he is a world-class all-rounder. But no one looked to the numbers with this perspective.
Letโs dive deep into those stats of Jacques Kallis
Test stats
Matches | Runs scored | Batting Average | Wickets taken | Bowling Average | |
Sachin Tendulkar | 200 | 15921 | 53.78 | 46 | 54.17 |
Zaheer Khan | 92 | 1230 | 11.94 | 311 | 32.95 |
Jacques Kallis. | 166 | 13289 | 55.37 | 292 | 32.65 |
ODI stats
Matches | Runs scored | Batting Average | Wickets taken | Bowling Average | |
Sachin Tendulkar | 463 | 18426 | 44.83 | 154 | 44.48 |
Zaheer Khan | 200 | 792 | 12.00 | 282 | 29.44 |
Jacques Kallis | 328 | 11579 | 44.36 | 273 | 31.79 |
If you add Kallisโ and Zaheerโs Test runs, you almost reach Sachinโs Test runs, while Sachinโs and Kallisโ batting average is the same. Compare Zaheerโs Test wickets and the addition of Sachinโs and Kaliisโ Test wickets, they are in close agreement. Astonishingly, Kallisโs Test bowling average is slightly better than Zaheerโs one.
Talking about the ODI batting average, Sachin and Kallis again are at the same place. Zaheer in ODIs has picked 282 wickets and is just 9 more than what Kallis has. There isnโt much difference between the ODI bowling average of Zaheer and Kallis either.
These are really incredible stats.
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Contribution matters the most

It’s not only about runs and wickets. It’s also about the effort that goes behind the scenes.
Most importantly, Kallis has contributed to the team’s success as a bowler and a batter, not once or twice but in 166 Tests and 328 ODIs.
Not the thing that the two Indians have achieved less, but numbers are testimony to who has contributed more for the team.
Ultimately, cricket is a team sport and how you contribute to the team is the thing of utmost importance.ย
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