On Wednesday former all-rounder Jacques Kallis was appointed as South Africa’s batting consultant for the entire summer. “Former Standard Bank Proteas all-rounder, @jacqueskallis75 has been named as the team’s batting consultant for the duration of the summer. He will join the squad for their camp starting in Pretoria today (Wednesday),” Cricket South Africa shared the news in its official twitter handle.

Jacques Kallis played 519 international matches for South Africa across formats with 25,534 runs and 577 wickets in his name so far. He featured in 166 Tests, 328 ODIs and 25 T20 Internationals as well. He retired from all forms of international cricket in 2014 after scoring 62 international centuries — 45 Test and 17 ODI – averaging 55.37 and 44.36 in each format respectively.

Kallis is the latest high-profile, as well as, renowned name to be included in South Africa’s coaching set-up after Mark Boucher’s appointment as head coach in CSA’s rebuilding programme. Former Test wicket-keeper Boucher was named as South Africa’s new head coach on a four-year deal last week only. The 43-year-old replaced Enoch Nkwe, who was the interim team director after head coach Ottis Gibson was released in August and he is now the assistant coach of the team.

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Although, Jacques Kallis is not new to coaching. He was the head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in 2015 when head coach Trevor Bayliss resigned from his post to take over the responsibility with the England cricket team. He was also the batting consultant of KKR for 2015 Indian Premier League season as well.

During the home summer, South Africa will first host England from mid-December to mid-February for four Test matches, three One Day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals. After England, South Africa will host Australia for three Twenty20 Internationals and as many One Day Internationals as well.