Quote: Former South Africa allrounder Jacques Kallis has said that his decision to retire from international cricket was well considered and not taken at the spur of the moment. Speaking exclusively to ESPNcricinfo, Kallis revealed he felt "the time was right" to walk away from the game despite making his ambitions of playing the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand public earlier.

"I have always said the day I wake up and I don't have that feeling of wanting to play international cricket, I'll call it quits and that's exactly what happened," he said. "I was always going to be honest with myself about that. It would have been nice to get through to the 2015 World Cup but I'm certainly not going to play if I am even 1% off from where I should be for international cricket."

Kallis announced his decision to retire after scores of 0,1 and 4 in the three-ODI series against Sri Lanka in July. He had announced his Test retirement in December 2013 after the final Test against India in Durban. "I know I have made the right choice. I sleep comfortably at night," he said. "I felt I had spent enough time away from home, other things were more important than international cricket to me."