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How Newlands Disgraced A South African Hero

How Newlands Disgraced A South African Hero

In 2014, Newlands considered naming a stand after Jacques Kallis. It never happened. I guess being the greatest all-rounder of all time isn't enough of an achievement

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Dec 15, 2023
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Jacques Kallis retirement: South Africa's quiet legend in class of his own  | The Independent | The Independent

It’s remarkable to think, what with Newlands Cricket Ground attracting so much negative publicity recently, that Newlands was host to one of the all-time great Test matches only 12 years ago. The Test against Australia – let’s call it Vernon Philander’s Test for convenience sake – was over in two-and-a-half days, you might remember, so there’s some seri…

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