How much is Kallis worth to SA?

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Cape Town

If Hashim Amla, David Miler, JP Duminy and AB de Villiers each score a half-century in the course of five one-day internationals, and three of them get to within 15 runs of a century, SA should win more of those games than they lose, right? Wrong.

That is exactly what happened in Sri Lanka last July – and SA were thumped 4-1 in the series. At least part of the reason for that bit of skewed logic is that Jacques Kallis was not in the squad. Happily for SA, then...