Was Kallis better than Sobers?

Sobers was versatile with the ball, bowling two styles of spin - left-arm orthodox and wrist spin,

but was also a fine fast-medium opening bowler.

His catching in the leg trap close to the wicket may have been equalled but never surpassed !

Sobers excelled at most athletic activities, playing golf, soccer and bastketball for Barbados :

and made his first class debut at the age of 16, appearing in Tests a year later  !!

He set the Test record for an individual batsman with a mammoth 365 against Pakistan.....

He was knighted for his services to cricket in 1975. 

The year Kallis was  Born ! 

Born October 16, 1975, Pinelands, Cape Town, Cape Province , South Africa

Kallis beeter tha Sobers for Hair Transplant  :-[

Sad to see Kallis go.

He is leaving the international stage in such an understated way.

I just wished he had smiled a bit more.

I would be surprised if he ever features in ODIs South Africa again as their OD schedule is infrequent.

Excellent fielder, could be in the team as a bowler and an imperious batsman. Destructive but well capable of a patient inning.

Really great man.

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Yes, indeed !

Samson was a victim of Delilah ! 

[quote author=Rev link=topic=86372.msg540866#msg540866 date=1388173289]
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Good lord Rev.
They played in DIFFERENT ERAS, and statistics is useful, but using it without context is brainless.
I appreciate your obsession with stats, but not everything is quantifiable. Especially different eras and contexts.

Six days TEST match with a rest day in between.

8 balls per over instead of 6

No helmets or arm guards

Travel by Boat instead of Airplane.

Stay at " coloreds" only motels instead of 5 star luxury hotel...

et cetera , et cetera

Some things are just NOT quantifiable ! 

[quote author=Kyle link=topic=86372.msg540971#msg540971 date=1388202327]
Good lord Rev.
They played in DIFFERENT ERAS, and statistics is useful, but using it without context is brainless.
I appreciate your obsession with stats, but not everything is quantifiable. Especially different eras and contexts.
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Rev will not understand this..

Tunnel vision.

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=86372.msg540977#msg540977 date=1388203268]
Six days TEST match with a rest day in between.
........benefitted players of old. Players these days do not have this luxury.

8 balls per over instead of 6
.......this only happened in Australia

No helmets or arm guards
........ And?

Travel by Boat instead of Airplane.
........they had many more tour games before the first test and in between. These days tourists do not have this offered.

Stay at " coloreds" only motels instead of 5 star luxury hotel...
.....wrong, wrong, wrong.

et cetera , et cetera

Some things are just NOT quantifiable ! 
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