Is Kallis selfish? S. Rajesh from an old piece at Cricinfo:

For people who have watched him over the years, though, his approach has often been baffling: despite having almost every stroke at his command - to go with a watertight defensive technique - Kallis seldom dominates bowling attacks the way he should. The innings at Sydney was only the latest example of how he seems to bat in a bubble, oblivious to the team cause - less than a couple of months earlier, Kallis plodded his way to 91 off 146 balls in an ODI against India at Mumbai, as South Africa only managed 221 and ended up losing the match.

I was thinking over regarding Kallis. I think he might well be incapable of slogging successfully more than any thing. None of his shots early on in the inning he played today versus the West Indies, even when he was hitting sixes, were slogs. They were good cricket shots.

It might well be that he is incapable of playing outside his comfort zones or cannot make runs effectively when he tries to. How many times have you seen Kallis slogging successfully over a period of time?

A problem is, he doesn’t even try to hurry things even when the situation demands at times like in a period in the game versus Australia till it was too late (even if playing slowly in the earlier portion of the inning might have been to ensure that wickets are kept in hand before the final flurry).

So in the end, he ends up harming his team a lot of the times while at the crease if the situation demands quick runs. As a result, he is often termed as selfish which may not necessarily be true.

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