Having recorded a career-best 224, South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis blasted the media, stating that only newspapers believed that he was too old and slow to have a place in the national cricket team.
"Fortunately I do not read newspapers, but a few of my pals have told me what they were writing about me," Kallis was quoted as saying by the Afrikaans daily Beeld on Friday.
"It's ridiculous to hear that after just one weak match you are suddenly too old and slow and that your eyes are not as good as they used to be," he added.
Kallis said he hoped that his double century in his 150th Test would prove that there was nothing wrong with his eyes.