Kallis fourth South African to score a ton in last Test

Jacques Kallis became the fourth South African to score a hundred in his last Test, emulating Pieter van der Bijl, Lee Irvine and Barry Richards after his splendid innings of 115 put the hosts in control against India on Day 4 of the second and final Test in Durban, on Sunday.

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He also moved to the third place among the leading run-scorers in Test cricket just before he got out, surpassing Rahul Dravid.

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Kallis, who will retire from Tests at the end of this series, now has 13,289 runs in the longest format.

The veteran batsman also posted his 45th century in Test cricket.

Players hitting a century in their last Test:

Player	For	Inns1	Inns2	Vs	Venue	Season
H Wood	Eng	134*	DNB	SA	Cape Town	1891-92
AJL Hill	Eng	124	DNB	SA	Cape Town	1895-96
RA Duff	Aus	146	DNB	Eng	The Oval	1905
J Sharp	Eng	105	0*	Aus	The Oval	1909
CAG Russell	Eng	140	111	SA	Durban	1922-23
GB Legge	Eng	196	0	NZ	Auckland	1929-30
A Sandham	Eng	325	50	WI	Kingston	1929-30
FR Martin	WI	123*	20	Aus	Sydney	1930-31
WH Ponsford	Aus	266	22	Eng	The Oval	1934
M Leyland	Eng	187	DNB	Aus	The Oval	1938
PGV van der Bijl	SA	125	97	Eng	Durban	1938-39
KH Weekes	WI	137	DNB	Eng	The Oval	1939
AG Ganteaume	WI	112	DNB	Eng	Port-of-Spain	1947-48
W Place	Eng	8	107	WI	Kingston	1947-48
VM Merchant	Ind	154	DNB	Eng	Delhi	1951-52
R Subba Row	Eng	12	137	Aus	The Oval	1961
VL Manjrekar	Ind	19	102*	NZ	Chennai (Corp)	1964-65
C Milburn	Eng	139	DNB	Pak	Karachi	1968-69
SM Nurse	WI	258	DNB	NZ	Christchurch	1968-69
BL Irvine	SA	25	102	Aus	Port Elizabeth	1969-70
BA Richards	SA	81	126	Aus	Port Elizabeth	1969-70
RE Redmond	NZ	107	56	Pak	Auckland	1972-73
IR Redpath	Aus	101	70	WI	Melbourne	1975-76
GS Chappell	Aus	182	DNB	Pak	Sydney	1983-84
M Azharuddin	Ind	9	102	SA	Bangalore	1999-00
MW Goodwin	Zim	148*	1*	Eng	Trent Bridge	2000
Saeed Anwar	Pak	101	DNB	Ban	Multan	2001-02
PA de Silva	SL	206	DNB	Ban	Colombo PSS	2002
ML Love	Aus	100*	DNB	Ban	Cairns	2003
N Hussain	Eng	34	103*	NZ	Lord's	2004
JN Gillespie	Aus	201*	DNB	Ban	Chittagong	2005-06
PA Jaques	Aus	31	108	WI	Bridgetown	2007-08
JH Kallis	SA	115		Ind	Durban	2013-14

DNB = Did not bat

Leading run-scorers in Test cricket:

	Mts	Runs	Avg	100	50
SR Tendulkar (Ind)	200	15921	53.78	51	68
RT Ponting (Aus)	168	13378	51.85	41	62
JH Kallis (SA)	166	13289	55.37	45	58
R Dravid (Ind)	164	13288	52.31	36	63
BC Lara (WI)	131	11953	52.88	34	48
S Chanderpaul (WI)	153	11219	51.93	29	62
AR Border (Aus)	156	11174	50.56	27	63
SR Waugh (Aus)	168	10927	51.06	32	50
DPMD Jayawardene (SL)	138	10806	49.56	31	45
KC Sangakkara (SL)	117	10486	56.98	33	42
SM Gavaskar (Ind)	125	10122	51.12	34	45

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