Jacques Khallis Wants to keep playing in all three formats.

Allrounders the world over are either fighting frequent injuries or giving up one form of the game to prolong their careers in another, but not Jacques Kallis. He's remained remarkably durable over a 14-year career, performing consistently with bat and ball, and has no intention of giving up a format, or forgoing his bowling, to extend his career.

"As I sit here at the moment, I'm still fit enough to keep going and I enjoy all three formats," Kallis said. "I enjoy both batting and bowling. Certainly in Test cricket, if I spend a day in the field without bowling, it feels like it's two days. For me to give up bowling would be tough, and I'll only do that if my body tells me to. The day I wake up and it gets too much, [and] I'm not really enjoying it, I'll stop."

Kallis has scored over 10,000 runs and has taken more than 200 wickets in both Tests and ODIs but his career, which has remained largely injury-free, has been the exception during a time when genuine allrounders are becoming a rarity. Andrew Flintoff's spate of injuries forced him to give up Test cricket in order to prolong his limited-overs careers, and New Zealand's Jacob Oram has often said that he could be forced to give up bowling in order avoid sitting injured on the sidelines.

"With the amount of cricket that is played around the world, it's tough," Kallis said. "I've been fortunate in my career, I haven't been injured too often, but the life of an allrounder is pretty tough. It is tough on the body and that's probably why there are not so many top allrounders still playing all three formats."

Kallis recently received high praise from Kevin Pietersen, who called the allrounder the "greatest cricketer ever".

"It's a great compliment, especially coming from a player like him," Kallis said. "But you've got to look at the stats - sure, the runs might be there and the wickets might be there, but we're playing a lot more cricket these days than the guys in yesteryears. I'm sure that if they'd played the amount of cricket that we play today, they would have achieved what modern-day cricketers achieve as well."

A side-strain prevented Kallis from bowling during the second Twenty20 international against England on Sunday but he is expected to be fully fit for the first ODI in Johannesburg on Friday.

Now Jacques Khallis Have the opportunity to show his team that he is still perfect for playing ODI's And Twenty20's!