Kallis wakes up and smells the future

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TELFORD VICE, Kandy

Jacques Kallis has woken up and smelled the golf course. Or the beach. Or the boerie rolls at a Wynberg Boys’ High rugby match.

Whichever it is, the great allrounder will have more time to do whatever he likes in the wake of his retirement from all international cricket on Wednesday.

With that, all questions about the sense and sensibility – not to mention the sentimentality – of him playing in the 2015 World Cup no longer need be asked.

Kallis’ decision follows his...