A farewell to the greatest cricketer of our time (and possibly all time…) Jacques Kallis. If you like your cricket you’ll like this, impressive reading! Only Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting scored more Test runs than him. However, with Jacques Kallis the runs he scored only tells part of the story, because he also sent down 3372 overs in Tests (Tendulkar and Ponting together bowled 804.3) and took 292 wickets – 29th in the list of all-time leading wicket-takers in Tests, and fifth-best among South Africans. Add the two and…
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Been pottering about today, I like doing that! Did some SYSAdmin stuff this morning early then got some tools out to make a vertical herb garden. There a few old pallets about here so I thought about re-purposing them. I made the vertical garden without to much bother and got thinking about some hanging flower baskets and a couple benches. While all that was going on I been keeping one eye on the cricket. South Africa is having a great series against New Zealand and this second test we really…