Jacques Kallis

The arrival

Jacques Kallis arrived through the auction: Royal Challengers Bangalore paid ₹3.60 cr (US$900k), against a base price of ₹90 lakh, at the very first IPL auction.

That first season brought 11 matches, 199 runs and 4 wickets at 9.06 an over.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2010, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 572 runs at an average of 47.7, striking at 115.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.0, with 6 fifties, and a highest score of 89 not out. There were three seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2010, 2011 and 2012).

With the ball, the best season was 2013, for Kolkata Knight Riders: 16 wickets at 7.34 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.51, with best figures of 3 for 13. Two seasons brought 15 wickets or more (2012 and 2013).

Franchise by franchise

2008 to 2010, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2008 auction for ₹3.60 cr. 42 matches, 1,132 runs and 23 wickets.

2011 to 2014, Kolkata Knight Riders. Bought at the 2011 auction for ₹4.95 cr. 56 matches, 1,295 runs and 42 wickets; champions in 2012 and 2014.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Kolkata Knight Riders, 2011 to 2014.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Jacques Kallis struck at 109.2. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 123.4, so Jacques Kallis scored about 14 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 53% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 255 fours and 44 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 40.9% of the balls Jacques Kallis faced were dot balls, a higher share than 81% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 50.5 balls, and a four every 8.7.

With the ball, 65 wickets in 1,751 deliveries, at 7.86 runs an over against a league rate of 7.68 for the same seasons: 0.18 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

34.5% of the balls Jacques Kallis bowled were dots, a lower share than 54% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 26.8 balls.

The fielding record: 30 catches and 6 run-outs.

At the auction

Jacques Kallis went under the hammer three times. The highest price was ₹5.50 cr, paid by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Jacques Kallis made 98 IPL appearances, the last for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014, and won 10 player-of-the-match awards.