5 Great Cricketers who never scored a test century at Lord's
Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, EnglandScoring a test hundred at Lord’s – The Home of Cricket has always been special for every player who ever played at the venue, after all who would not like to have his name inscribed on the Lord’s honours board.A century at Lord’s highlights the entire career of a player and then he is looked upon as a special player. Many players have scored centuries at Lord’s and went on to achieve extraordinary status in the game but there are also some greats of the game who never made a three-figure score at the venue.Let’s have a look at 5 such greats of the game.
#5 Jacques Kallis
Kallis redefined the meaning of an all-rounder during his playing days, he probably is one of the best all-rounders to have ever played the game of cricket. The former Proteas all-rounder has the second highest number of test centuries (45) in the world, only 6 short of Sachin Tendulkar who has scored 51 test hundreds.
Jacques Kallis has been a perfect team man, he gave his everything in whatever he did for South Africa and was one of the most consistent batsmen of his times, irrespective of the playing conditions. With the ball in hand, he clocked 140 consistently and was not just ‘any other bowler’ in the side.
He was the main reason South Africa maintained their position at the top of the ICC Test Rankings for quite a long time. Kallis achieved several personal milestones during his career but the one even Kallis could not achieve was getting his name up there on the Lord’s honours board. However, Kallis got just 5 opportunities to score that hundred at the home of cricket but he failed miserably at Lord’s.
Kallis scores at Lord’s – 0, 7, 13, 3, 31 – a total of 54 runs at a nightmarish average of 10.8 for the best all-rounder of his era.