Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Wednesday (December 18) appointed legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis as national team’s batting consultant for the entire duration of their home summer.

“Former Standard Bank Proteas all-rounder, @jacqueskallis75 has been named as the team’s batting consultant for the duration of the summer. He will join the squad for their camp starting in Pretoria today (Wednesday),” CSA made the announcement through a tweet.

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The only cricketer on the planet to have amassed more than 10,000 runs and scalped over 200 wickets in both Test and ODI formats, Kallis is widely regarded as the greatest cricketer of all time.

During the course of his 19-year-long illustrious career, Kallis accumulated 13289 Test runs at an average of 55.37 and claimed 292 Test wickets at 32 a piece. Besides, the Proteas great also proved his mettle in the shortest format as he aggregated 11579 ODI runs in 328 matches at an average of 44.36 and scalped 273 ODI wickets. In T20I cricket, Kallis represented South Africa in 25 matches in which he scored 666 runs and picked up 12 wickets.

Kallis has a fair amount of experience as coach. He was the head coach of IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders in 2015 when Trevor Bayliss resigned to take charge of England cricket team. The 44-year-old was also the batting consultant of KKR for 2015 Indian Premier League season.

Jacques Kallis, who retired from all forms of international cricket in 2014, is the latest high-profile name to be included in South Africa’s coaching set-up after Mark Boucher was named head coach on a four-year deal last week.

During the home summer, South Africa will host England for 4 Tests, 3 ODIs and as many T20Is followed by a limited-overs series (3 T20Is & 3 ODIs) against Australia.