marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Depends which stats you look at - 8351 @ 55.30 & 207 @ 32.26 or 7375 @ 50.51 & 178 @ 35.03
Granted the second lot are still good figures, but the sudden reduction in gap is quite telling IMO.
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Why is Jacques Kallis so disliked?
- Thread starter Langeveldt
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Granted the second lot are still good figures, but the sudden reduction in gap is quite telling IMO.
Slow Love™
International Captain
Haha, don't think I had quite the same picture come to mind, but he does look a bit of a thug, doesn't he?I rate him very highly as a player.
The area I dont like him in is purely irrational but never-the-less I cant get out of my head.
He has that look about him that screams he should be in a uniform with a sjambok beating down on someone. He just looks like a nasty bastard to me.
As I said, completely unjustified and irrational but I cant get that vision of him out of my head. Obviously its not true, so Im not judging or accusing him.
Its just everytime I see him, the vision of a nasty apharteid era policeman jumps into my mind.
Once you've visited his website though, particularly regarding the Foundation and the Q&A ("I use all Sanex products for my hair, feet and body"), you can't help falling in love with him.
And his ridiculously hot former Miss South Africa girlfriend... Dammit, I hate the bastard again.
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
You know a mate of mine back in 1999 said a very similar thing. We were talking about Kallis and he said something along the lines of "I have no real good basis for this opinion, but to me he looks a racist, or at least a very big asshole."I rate him very highly as a player.
The area I dont like him in is purely irrational but never-the-less I cant get out of my head.
He has that look about him that screams he should be in a uniform with a sjambok beating down on someone. He just looks like a nasty bastard to me.
As I said, completely unjustified and irrational but I cant get that vision of him out of my head. Obviously its not true, so Im not judging or accusing him.
Its just everytime I see him, the vision of a nasty apharteid era policeman jumps into my mind.
So you're not alone, if its any consolation (if that makes sense
).I love Kallis, but I'm not blindly a fan of his to ignore his shortcomings, and one of them is that he plays for himself on occasions. SA vs. Eng 2004/05 5th test is evidence of that IMO, and I can't see how anyone could deny it.
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Haha, yeah, I can definitely see where Goughy is coming from as well. Personally, I have that feeling a lot about white South Africans though. I've met some great South African people, but there's a certain kind of predjudice that comes naturally, particularly with ex-pat South Africans who live over here. I always imagine them as mine owners or cops or something before they left their homeland. I guess it's the same feeling one might have had about Germans half a century ago.
Kallis inspires this particular feeling far more than most.
Kallis inspires this particular feeling far more than most.
Langeveldt
Soutie
She actually makes me angry, on a par with Melissa Theirau
Langeveldt
Soutie
Jesus, so whats the guy on the right flashing around at night???
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
GRR!!! I've tried time and again to show why you can perfectly legitimately deny it!
Slow Love™
International Captain
He, too, uses Sanex products for his hair, feet and body.Jesus, so whats the guy on the right flashing around at night???
pasag
RTDAS
Agreed.
Goughy
Hall of Fame Member
Thats exactly what you said when you accused Smith of being a racist.
Stop trolling or produce your own evidence to back your claims
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
GRR!!! I've tried time and again to show why you can perfectly legitimately deny it!
Sanz
Hall of Fame Member
I am sure you have already done that result. dont you ?
jot1
State Vice-Captain
So much that during his benefit year they stood by him and spend long hours helping him. So much that they declared his benefit year one of the most sucsessful. So much that they declared at numerous interviews on TV he is one of the best blokes around. So much that Boucher has already gone into business with him and others are considering it. A real estate business, where they will have to spend most of their time, after their careers have ended, with him. Doesn't sound like someone not liked to me. (And go and research this, if you like.
)Probably because when SA need him to score quickly in Tests (Centurion 2005, Sydney 2006 the best two examples) he doesn't - if he'd scored quicker in those matches they might just have tied one or both of those series. But we know he can score qiuck when he wants too - he's got the fsatest 50 in terms of balls faced (albeit against a crap Zimbabwe) and he can score quick in ODIs. So the fact he doesn't do it when SA really need him to do it can be interpreted as selfishness - I'm not saying it is - but he seemed unwilling to score quick and take risks in the Tests I mentioned (which is worse than being unable to do so).