Jaques Kallis Hits Quickest Test 50

Jaques Kallis set an all time record for the quickest ever Test Match 50 reaching it in just 24 deliveries. He becomesthe first ever player to reach a Test 50 with a strike rate of over 200 and beats Ian Bothams record of 26 balls faced. I would usually make a longer more detailed post but i'm finding it difficult due to the way the record was achieved and the way it will stand. None the less it still had to be achieved so congratulations to him.

By the way this record hasn't been set at truly lightening speed even though it is at a prolific rate and neither is the quickest ever 100 scored by Viv in just 56 balls and i thought this may well be one record to go soon as may Viv's anytime soon.

I reckon I could've hit a 50 against Zimbabwe!!! Might have taken a bit longer! Still, must have been exciting for the kids.

Shahid Afridi made fifty in just 26 balls against India in the 3rd Test against Bangalore, putting him just behind Kallis and alongside Botham on the all-time fast fifties list.

It is nice to see Jacques Kallis get a world record, albeit against the useless Zimbabweans. Poor Kallis slaves away at the top of the world rankings and never gets the sort of credit that people like Flintoff and Tendulkar get. So its nice for the man to have a world record to his name.

i didn't even know about this. i thought maybe it would be on cricinfo or something but nowhere, i only found out through this forum.

that's an amazing achievement for kallis and i commend him on it. he is truly a great player. but i haven't seen him in action for like 5 years.

yea, and i thought that Kallis was the slowest player ever but this inning proves me wrong.

did you notice that his fastest test 50 was against the worst opposition in the world...zimbabwe. Wasim Akram made 257* against zimbabwe, does that mean he is a master batsman. exactly my point, just because you accomplish something against the worst opposition in the world doesn't make you someone great.
Mutiah Muralitharan has taken 1/5 of his wickets against zimbabwe and bangladesh which is why he has so many wickets but no one considers him as good as shane because he accomplished something against weak oppositions.

Lastly, everyone knows that Kallis is a great all-rounder, but everyone also knows that he is a slow player.

Edited by saadadvanced7

i know that he has great stats but i didn't argue that. i said he is a slow batter. have you looked at his strike rate. it sucks.

but u lot hav to remember in first class a pakista batsmen called imran nazir made it in just 14 ball nearly all 6s.but no doubt kallis is a world class batsmen and has a good strike rate and his bowling i lov

Yea, I certainly agree that he is an outstanding player and batsman but I didn't argue against that. I was saying that he is a slow player and it's a fact. Did you see the last ODI in the india/SA series? He hit a 91 off 146 balls. SA could have managed a lot more of he had only used lets say a 100 balls for that 91.

Why on earth did you dig this up?

Anyway to put that innings of Kallis into proper context let us remember that the spinner bowling at him for Zimbabwe was playing after a season where he couldn't even get into the club side he was playing for in Scotland.