Scott Oliver on a time when one of the greatest all-rounders the world has ever seen played league cricket in the Midlands

It would be unfair to describe someone with more Test sixes than everyone bar Ben Stokes, Brendan McCullum, Adam Gilchrist and Chris Gayle – those four swordsmen of the apocalypse, – as vanilla, and perhaps unfair on vanilla to use it as a synonym for bland.
But for a cricketer who finished with 13,289 Test runs at over 55, including 45 hundreds, as well as 292 wickets at under 33 and 200 catches, comparatively little of Jacques Henry Kallis’ career skips down the pitc...