{"id":76602,"date":"2019-12-19T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76602"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:40:22","slug":"south-africa-appoint-jacques-kallis-as-batting-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/south-africa-appoint-jacques-kallis-as-batting-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa appoint Jacques Kallis as batting consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis was on Wednesday appointed as South Africa\u2019s batting consultant for the entire duration of their home summer. \u201cFormer Standard Bank Proteas all-rounder,jacqueskallis75 has been named as the team\u2019s batting consultant for the duration of the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kallis, 44, retired from all forms of international cricket in 2014 after amassing 62 international centuries 45 Test and 17 ODI averaging 55.37 and 44.36 in each format respectively. Kallis is the latest high-profile name to be inducted in South Africa\u2019s coaching set-up after Mark Boucher\u2019s appointment as head coach in CSA\u2019s rebuilding programme for the national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Test wicketkeeper Boucher was named as South Africa\u2019s new head coach on a four-year deal last week. The 43-year-old replaced Enoch Nkwe, who was interim team director after head coach Ottis Gibson was released in August and is now the assistant coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kallis is not new to coaching. He was the head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in 2015 when head coach Trevor Bayliss resigned to take over with the England cricket team.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis was on Wednesday appointed as South Africa\u2019s batting consultant for the entire duration of their home summer. \u201cFormer Standard Bank Proteas all-rounder,jacqueskallis75 has been named as the team\u2019s batting consultant for the duration of the summer. Kallis, 44, retired from all forms of international cricket in 2014 after amassing 62 international [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76604,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76602\/revisions\/76604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}