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00:00Here he comes, King Cullis.
00:30He's been around for a very long time. It is final test match for South Africa.
00:42What a brilliant touch, everybody on their feet here at Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead.
00:47And then also the players he's playing against, the Indian team, the subs as well who are on the dugout at the edge of the boundary.
00:56They made a god of honour for him. Fantastic. At the behest.
01:09Have a look at the numbers. They're incredible for Jaakalas. They really are.
01:2613,174 runs. An average of 55.12. 44 hundreds and 58 fifties.
01:37A couple of double hundreds.
01:39Half an appeal.
01:48Respectively.
01:50Hello.
01:51Where's that come from now?
01:53Has he pulled that as a cutter? Or has it just gone through the top?
02:06Certainly misbehaved.
02:07We've seen a couple of balls actually hit the glove, hit the thumb area and suddenly popping off an area around about the good length.
02:20Yeah, that really has taken off.
02:22Shot.
02:25Shot.
02:28Beautiful shot.
02:32Four rounds to Jaakalas.
02:34It hung about for a bit. Decided right.
02:37Time to go.
02:38He breaks the shackles and you can understand how he's hung around a bit.
02:42It's his last test match. He wants to get himself in.
02:44Beautifully played.
02:45Moves late.
02:47To the pitch of it.
02:48It does turn.
02:50Beautiful extension of the arms.
02:52Goes again and executes it just as well.
02:55One bounce and another boundary.
03:00It's been a feature of Jaakalas' batting.
03:02It was a later part of his career.
03:04His positivity against spin.
03:07In the past, he may be content to bat for long periods of time.
03:12A lot more defensive against the spin.
03:16But in his later years, he's been a lot more positive.
03:20What about those numbers then?
03:26It's gone fine.
03:28And it's going to go all the way for four.
03:34They're just drifting down the leg side.
03:36It's a free hit for Jaakalas this one.
03:38No pressure on it with the square leg.
03:41Extremely square.
03:43Just had to ensure that he got a bat on it.
03:45Played it fine.
03:46It's always going to be four runs.
03:52A good contest.
03:56Shot.
03:58Nicely onto the toes and punch for four.
04:03Exquisite.
04:05Quality shot from Jaakalas.
04:06It's bending.
04:07Just back of a length.
04:09First delivery for Sharma from the old fort end.
04:12Jaakalas doesn't miss out in these two.
04:16That's Jaakalas off the back foot at his best.
04:19Have a look at this.
04:20Rocks back.
04:21Gets on his toes.
04:22Punches it square.
04:23Tarmine.
04:24Placement.
04:25Very good.
04:26Sharma trying to swing the ball in.
04:28Oh, he's got that one away and there's an edge.
04:30Drunaway finally for four.
04:31There's no slaps.
04:32Cutlass will bank that.
04:34Good delivery.
04:36The ball has been coming into the right-hander predominantly.
04:39This one went away off the outside edge.
04:41But as Mike Aisman said, no slip.
04:43Oh, that's a beautiful shot because it's very nicely bowled by Sharma.
04:56That was a fine example of reverse swing.
04:58The two things about that is one, the pace was good at 144 Ks per hour.
05:02And because the pace is right, just have a look at how late this ball swings back into Cullis.
05:09Yeah, that last end as well.
05:12Very good seam position as well.
05:17Just wonder if the wind hasn't upset MS Doney's plans.
05:24Single to Cullis.
05:26Moves him now onto 32.
05:28Correction, 33.
05:29Let's have a look at something which puts things in perspective.
05:42This is Jacques Cullis in all forms of the game for South Africa.
05:46His international career, 516 games, almost 25,500 runs, 577 wickets, 61 hundreds.
05:56Last over through the covers.
05:57Cullis on strike now.
05:58That's died a little bit and that's been punched off the back foot for four.
06:02Emphatic stroke from Cullis.
06:05Trademark stroke from Jacques Cullis.
06:07Got right on top of the bounce.
06:09Played that back foot drive to perfection.
06:12It's not an easy shot to play.
06:15So a bit of a lesson, Jacques Cullis starting to dominate.
06:29Worrying signs for MS Doney.
06:31And again, back to back, same region.
06:36Beautiful, one off the back foot, the next one off the front foot.
06:39Again, what this illustrates is the job that Dale
06:44Steyne did for South Africa.
06:46Not an easy wicket to bowl, Simon.
06:48You just back of a length and give the batsman enough time to hit the ball for four off the back foot.
06:54Now you try and get it up to the bat.
06:56Half volley, bang, away she goes.
06:58Again, the placement is perfect.
07:00Beautiful shot.
07:01Four runs.
07:02Bit of a loosener from Ishan Sharma.
07:03Full in length.
07:04Jar Cullis cashes in.
07:05Square over the wicket.
07:06It's over pitched.
07:07Brought the fielder up from the off side boundary.
07:10And there we can see it's full.
07:11Callis goes after it.
07:12Executes it beautifully.
07:17Love the extension.
07:18Let the ball come to him.
07:19Get it right underneath his eye line.
07:20Love the extension.
07:21Let the ball come to him.
07:22Get it right underneath his eye line.
07:23And there we can see it's full.
07:24And there we can see it's full.
07:25Callis goes after it.
07:26Executes it beautifully.
07:36Love the extension.
07:38Let the ball come to him.
07:40Get it right underneath his eye line.
07:53It's always been lovely to watch him bat and play.
08:02But not so lovely when you're standing at first slip.
08:06On a hot day.
08:08Could have been worse.
08:10You could have been an extra cover on the boundary.
08:12Running around rather than just comfortable at first slip.
08:15Or running into bowl, Sean.
08:17Exactly.
08:23Turn from wide.
08:27And bounce as well.
08:50There you go Raul.
08:51All those numbers will please you.
08:54Very good numbers.
08:57Defining innings as well.
08:58Not just the numbers.
09:03A couple of them that I do remember.
09:05One was to win a test match in Bombay.
09:09It wasn't 100 but he batted with Mark Boucher to win a test match in the fourth innings.
09:13A difficult chase in Bombay.
09:15And then to save a test match at Cape Town.
09:23In the last series.
09:242.36 for 3.
09:252.36 for 3.
09:30It was Virat Kohli who took that catch.
09:32That's gone through.
09:33And will bring the 50 for Jack Kalas.
09:35He gets a good round of applause.
09:36He's worked hard for it.
09:37The important thing he's still there.
09:39A milestone in his final test match.
09:41Brilliant as well as picking up three wickets.
09:42He looks still pretty fresh as well.
09:43Bouncing in and bowling nicely.
09:44Silly point getting closer and closer.
09:45And now he's still a good round of applause.
09:46He's still a good round of applause.
09:47He's still a good round of applause.
09:48He's worked hard for it.
09:49The important thing he's still there.
09:52A milestone in his final test match.
09:54Brilliant as well as picking up three wickets.
09:59He looks still pretty fresh as well.
10:06Bouncing in and bowling nicely.
10:09Silly point getting closer and closer.
10:18So the position of this game is quite interesting.
10:21And Kepler-Peterson and A.B. de Villiers the last two to go.
10:28And Shauna continues.
10:34So many times in the subcontinent we've played in test matches where
10:37the test match meanders along for three days.
10:40Suddenly comes alive on days four and five.
10:42And the track starts to misbehave.
10:43Starts to turn.
10:44The odd ball keeps low.
10:46This wicket is...
10:48I wouldn't say it's a subcontinental wicket.
10:50But it is similar in a lot of ways.
10:58Just wonder if...
11:00If you look at the test match now and where it's at.
11:02Looks like it's meandering to a draw.
11:04You can see enough there that...
11:06To say that...
11:07Still it could come alive.
11:12We can of course get...
11:13Full play.
11:14There's...
11:15Clouds building up and...
11:16Hopefully the weather doesn't play a part.
11:20First test drawn.
11:23And you can rest assured there's still going to be plenty...
11:26To happen in this test match.
11:35Last session today particularly important.
11:38Provided the light holds.
11:40One team may well...
11:43Achieve an advantage during...
11:46The post tea session.
11:47The over rate from India today has been extremely impressive.
11:57This looks like it's going to be the last over...
12:00Before the break.
12:01Unless Jadeji gets through these pretty quick.
12:03He's trying to by the way.
12:05So maybe they want to try and get one more in...
12:07Before the break.
12:08Just a single to Cullis.
12:09To get down the other end.
12:16In this session.
12:19Chuck Cullis has been a rock.
12:20As he often has been throughout his 18 year career.
12:25Solid, dependable.
12:27Concentrating hard.
12:29Using his powers.
12:30All his powers are concentration.
12:32179.
12:40179 deliveries he's faced.
12:42180 now for his 61.
12:49Not about all here.
12:51And it's gone for four.
12:53No it hasn't.
12:54Pulled in, well played.
12:55Well done.
13:02Fabulous.
13:05Just standing and delivering.
13:07Width on offer.
13:08And he's smashed that to the fence.
13:16That boundary was about as big a stride as he could have got in.
13:20Make sure that he stayed right over the top of the ball.
13:23Man has dropped back now.
13:25Onto the boundary fence.
13:33That was in the air for some time.
13:34He just stood up at short leg.
13:36At Silly Point, excuse me.
13:37Shikha Dhawan it was.
13:38Silly Point.
13:39It's popped up a bit.
13:40It's always going low.
13:41It's got up a little bit.
13:42Shikha Dhawan.
13:44It's going to stay really low there.
13:45Silly Point.
13:46Turn and bounce.
13:47It's a Jadija.
13:48Oh lovely.
13:49It will make.
13:50It's popped up a bit, it's always going low, it's got up a little bit, look at that one.
13:56It's going to stay really low there, silly point.
14:03Turn and bounce.
14:05Into Jadeja.
14:08Oh, lovely.
14:11It will make MS Dhoni happy, it will make Jadeja happy, that's for sure.
14:21This light issue then becomes interesting, because do the two umpires say to MS Dhoni,
14:26what if you continue to bowl spin, we're happy for you to stay out there.
14:31He hasn't taken the second new ball.
14:36The spin certainly looks the most threatening.
14:38Yeah, he probably does say that.
14:40He said the same, I think, to Graeme Smith on day number one.
14:45In the name of consistency.
14:53Unless they decide, of course, that even the spin,
14:57not so easy to combat because of the light.
15:00With that conversation from Steve Davis and Jack Kalassu.
15:21I'll miss you.
15:22Owie!
15:23Free assie key.
15:24Nice boys.
15:2535 behind South Africa, Kalassu on to a 78.
15:26Nice.
15:27Nice.
15:28Nice.
15:29Nice boys.
15:30Nice.
15:31Nice boys.
15:32Nice.
15:33Nice boys.
15:3435 behind South Africa, Kalassu on to a 78.
15:40Right up boys.
15:41Let's just get into this heavy roller story.
15:45What does that do, Sean, at Kingsmead?
15:46It usually flattens the surface out on a day like today.
15:50And the cracks have been exposed just a touch.
15:55You need to knock down any of the edges of it and just make it nice, smooth, plain surface.
15:58If there was some green grass cover, maybe you would have gone for the slightly lighter roller
16:02because you don't want things to happen too quickly.
16:03But the fact that it is slow, the surface, the heavier the roller, the heavier the roller,
16:08the heavier the roller, the heavier the roller, the heavier the roller.
16:10It's interesting how different rollers are used in different countries.
16:35In India, we don't tend to use the heavy roller too much.
16:39I noticed it's used a lot more in these conditions.
16:43But in India, because the soil is, I guess, there's less clay content and there's a lot of red soil.
16:49So it's red clay.
16:50It tends to disintegrate a little bit more.
16:53So the tendency is for Indian captains to use the lighter roller.
16:57Because what you don't want with the heavy roller is, you know, for the wicket to break up,
17:03start to turn very quickly.
17:05It's interesting and very different, in different places.
17:13Very good.
17:14Tight first over.
17:16Nice and fine.
17:30Chase on for fine leg.
17:32And the ball wins.
17:34Moves into the 80s now.
17:36Carlos.
17:37Change of angle here for Zahir Khan.
17:39Coming around the wicket.
17:40We've seen him use this quite often on this tour so far.
17:44He doesn't get the line right.
17:46Fires it down the leg side.
17:48Canvas gets a little inside edge.
17:50As he looks to turn it around to fine leg.
17:52That's fine.
17:53He's done a great job in this test.
17:56Wow.
17:57Good luck with that one.
17:59Shot.
18:00It's in the gap.
18:01There's the tiniest gap there.
18:02But Cullis.
18:03Finds it.
18:04Like a surgeon.
18:05That's his area.
18:06The Jacques Cullis cover drive.
18:07Perfect placement.
18:08It was a hard volley.
18:09But his timing was good.
18:10That offside field is packed.
18:11So just 10 to go now.
18:12The crowd loved it.
18:13Weight going into the shot.
18:14Arms going through.
18:15Ensure a good follow through.
18:16But Cullis.
18:17But Cullis.
18:18Finds it.
18:19Like a surgeon.
18:20That's his area.
18:21The Jacques Cullis cover drive.
18:23Perfect placement.
18:24It was a hard volley.
18:25But his timing was good.
18:27That offside field is packed.
18:29So just 10 to go now.
18:32The crowd loved it.
18:35Weight going into the shot.
18:38Arms going through.
18:40I'm sure a good follow through.
18:45Big shout.
18:47No.
18:48Nothing.
18:49Yeah.
18:52Just to keep him honest.
18:55Well bowled.
18:58Well played as well.
19:00Yep.
19:01Not gonna get it easy.
19:03Yes.
19:04You've been fantastic over the years.
19:05And this young fella.
19:07Muhammad Shami says.
19:08Earn every single one.
19:10Rightly so too.
19:15Down the leg side.
19:16Without any more alarms.
19:20Nicely done.
19:21And that's gonna go all the way for four.
19:27Two away now.
19:28King Cullis.
19:29Yes.
19:30He's smiling.
19:31But I can assure you.
19:32He's nervous.
19:33Bonus runs down.
19:34Leg side.
19:35Well executed by Jacques Cullis.
19:36Edging ever closer.
19:37Oh.
19:38So close.
19:40Oh dear.
19:41Bonus runs down the leg side, well executed by Jacques Galles.
19:46Edging ever closer.
19:56Oh, so close.
20:00Oh dear.
20:01Start to knock that into the leg side field to get that single.
20:12Will it be this ball?
20:17He's got a leg slip in place now because the tennis likes to just turn it around the corner.
20:22They're all biting their nails.
20:25There's tension all round.
20:32And there it is.
20:35Test match century number 45 for Jacques-Henry Galles.
20:41It's probably his final innings for South Africa.
20:44Man, it just typifies what he's done all through the 18 years.
20:49He's been solid, he's been consistent, he's been fantastic.
20:56The seventh century against India.
21:01The second most test hundreds ever.
21:06Is applauded and appreciated by those who've turned up here at Kingsmead.
21:15And I'm sure also by many who are watching around the world on television.
21:19Perhaps just bounced a bit more than he expected.
21:29That's the milestone then.
21:31Third on the all-time list.
21:33Jacques Galles.
21:35Applauded in the change room.
21:37There's confirmation.
21:39Jacques Galles just above Raul Javid.
21:4113,289.
21:42I've just been reminded yet too.
21:43I'm just thinking of something where Jacques Galles at the moment he's struggling with his hamstring.
21:57So when he takes a single, he just walks for part of the way.
22:02And I know how it used to get his goat just a little bit with Eriduna Renatunga.
22:09When he used to walk, he used to try and get the ball and make sure that he finished the run completely.
22:13So if Mark Boucher was in the change room, for example, when he came in at lunch, he'd say,
22:19Who are you trying to emulate, Eriduna Renatunga?
22:22Goes for the big sweep over mid-wicket, top edge.
22:26And the innings of Jacques Galles comes to an end.
22:28He tried to take the attack to the spinner, Jadeja.
22:31He targeted the mid-wicket area.
22:34He went down on his knee.
22:35He's been struggling with a little bit of a hamstring.
22:38But the great innings, what a wonderful way to finish off with Jacques Galles.
22:40115.
22:42It's been great to have witnessed it.
22:44It's been great to have witnessed a wonderful career.
22:47And the man, as he makes his way off his Kings beat ground,
22:50will get rich applause for the crowd that's gathered.
22:53It's been a fantastic knock.
22:54Well done, Jacques Galles.
22:57Yeah, very well played.
22:59Fantastic innings from Jacques Galles.
23:01Particularly well.
23:02And what a great career it's been.
23:04One last occasion, possibly.
23:07Graham Smith looking out there to receive him.
23:11Yeah, really well.
23:13Everyone in that South African dream coming down.
23:18South Africa's greatest cricketer.
23:22He's a great in the game.
23:23And you can see from the applause.
23:26And also from the way his teammates have come out of the change room to come and receive him back in.
23:33One final time after a feat.
23:36Out on the park.
23:38Where he's been so colossal.
23:40Runs galore.
23:42From the bat of Jacques Galles.
23:45Now, someone else must try and do it.
23:48Can they?
23:49Will they?
23:51We'll wait and see.
23:52Everybody.
23:53Speed!
23:59You gotta see it.
24:00True.
24:01And how you set him through.
24:03Today we'll be the next couple.
24:04That was a victory.
24:07Let's go out with Cassie.
24:09ics.
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