Kallis sets World record in drawn Test

Telford Vice

Jacques Kallis broke the world record for the longest time spent at the crease between dismissals on the final day of the drawn second Test between Zimbabwe and South Africa on Tuesday.

South Africa won the two-match series 1-0, having beaten Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the first Test in Harare the previous Tuesday.

Zimbabwe, who had declared their first innings on 419 for nine, were 96 for three in their second innings when the captains shook hands.

Kallis, batting number three, scored a career-best 189 not out in South Africa's first innings of 519 for eight declared.

He had scored 157 not out and 42 not out in the first Test and batted for 1,028 minutes in the two Test matches, breaking the record of 1,021 minutes England captain Nasser Hussain set in South Africa in 1999-2000.

Kallis spent more than nine and a half hours at the crease in his innings in the second Test, facing 443 balls and hitting 19 fours and three sixes.

Kallis was named man of the match as well as man of the series for his aggregate of 388 runs without being dismissed.

Left-arm spinner Ray Price took career-best figures of five for 181 and the 79 overs he bowled were a record for a Zimbabwean in a Test innings, surpassing the 67 overs leg spinner Paul Strang sent down against Pakistan in Sheikhupura in 1996-97.

South Africa resumed on Tuesday on 300 for two and Kallis reached his century in the seventh over of the morning with a square cut for four off Price.

MCKENZIE OUT

Two overs after Kallis went to his century Neil McKenzie was trapped lbw by a yorker from Travis Friend, the fast bowler's first delivery of the day.

McKenzie scored 88 off 202 balls with 10 fours and a six. His dismissal ended a third-wicket stand of 181 which began 12 overs after lunch on Monday.

Thirteen overs later, Boeta Dippenaar, on 11, attempted a lofted on-drive to a delivery from Price but sliced the ball high into the covers, where Grant Flower took the catch.

South Africa went to lunch on 390 for four and lost their fifth wicket in the eighth over after the interval when Lance Klusener drove at a ball from Price and was well held at slip by Alistair Campbell for 27.

Shaun Pollock, who scored an aggressive 41 off 57 balls with five fours and a six, was brilliantly caught by Stuart Carlisle at backward point to earn Price his fifth wicket.

Friend took the last two wickets to fall in the innings with identical in-swinging deliveries that bowled Mark Boucher for 14 and Henderson for a duck, the latter prompting the declaration.

With the pitch turning and bouncing alarmingly, left-arm spinner Henderson took three quick wickets in Zimbabwe's second innings on his way to figures of three for 33.

Henderson bowled Dion Ebrahim for four with a straight delivery in the eighth over. In the 16th over, Campbell, on 20, pushed forward to a turning delivery and was caught by Dippenaar at short leg.

Eight overs later, Carlisle heaved a ball from Henderson to Makhaya Ntini at deep backward square leg and was out for four.

When play ended, Hamilton Masakadza was 42 not out and Andy Flower 14 not out.

Strang injured the little finger of his right hand in attempting to take a catch off his own bowling on Monday and did not take the field on Tuesday.

Mail Cricket Editor