Kallis joins elite as SA declare on 529-4

Jacques Kallis joined an elite band of all rounders before South Africa declared their first innings at 529 for four on the second day of the first Test with Bangladesh on Saturday.

At tea Bangladesh were 69 for two in reply with Habibul Bashar 22 not out and Sanwar Hossain on 18.

Kallis, 27 and playing in his 61st Test, went into the match needing to score 29 runs to become the fifth player and the first South African to achieve the double of 4,000 runs and 100 wickets in Tests.

West Indians Garfield Sobers - who reached the milestone in the fewest Tests, 43 - and Carl Hooper, Kapil Dev of India and Englishman Ian Botham are the other players in the group.

Kallis was 75 not out when the declaration came, having batted for three hours, faced 138 balls and hit nine fours. Debutant Martin van Jaarsveld was 39 not out in an unbroken fifth wicket stand of 81.

South Africa resumed on 369 for two, and lost their third wicket after an hour when Gary Kirsten steered a square drive off the bowling of medium pacer Talha Jubair to Alok Kapali at backward point.

Kirsten scored 150, his 15th test century, in more than five hours at the crease in which he faced 223 balls and hit 14 fours.

The innings made Kirsten the first player to score centuries against all nine test-playing countries, and his dismissal ended a third wicket stand of 81.

The same Bangladeshi combination struck in similar fashion in Jubair's next over to dismiss Ashwell Prince for two.

Both wickets fell because of batting errors rather than penetrative bowling as the visitors' modest attack failed to make an impression on the steadily flattening pitch.

South Africa's new ball pair of Mornantau Hayward and David Terbrugge also struggled to settle on a line and length, but in the eighth over Javed Omar played back to an angling delivery from Terbrugge and was trapped in front for seven.

Ten balls later Al-Shariar was bowled around his legs for 18 by Hayward with a ball that ricocheted from his thigh pad into his armpit and on to the stumps.

Mail Cricket Editor