Postcard: Jacques Kallis - Sipping pina coladas and playing cards

Jacques Kallis

April 18, 2001

The team has now arrived into Montego Bay from Antigua after playing a one-day festival type match in Montserrat. We are staying at the Half Moon Bay golf and country club resort and some of the boys had a round of golf yesterday which basically cost them around R1 000.

As for me and the other guys, we played 36 holes on the "putting course" and I ended up six under par and took the prize for the second round. Neil McKenzie took the honours on the first 18 holes with a score of three under par.

Believe it or not, but Tiger Woods was playing with us; in the form of Makhaya Ntini and on the third hole he had a hole-in-one put!

There is a real nice atmosphere staying on this golf resort. We are occupying three large villas or houses, each of them with a swimming pool, a butler, a housemaid and a chef.

In the evening the boys have to put in their breakfast orders and the time they want it and hey presto, when you come down for brekkies, it's ready and waiting for you.

After the fourth Test match in Antigua, the team headed off to the volcanic island of Montserrat for a one-day warm-up game.

Myself and Bouchie got lucky on that count and had the day off. We ended up staying the day at our hotel in Antigua, which by the way was situated right on the beach with a range of water sports to occupy the restless mind.

We rented jet skis and played around in the small surf, we had a few rides on the wind-surfers and ended the day with sundowners around the pool bar sipping pina coladas and playing cards.

And back to Montego Bay where we are now playing a two-day warm-up game against Jamaica ahead of the fifth and final Test match in Kingston. We are really fired up to finish the Test series off well and make it 3-0.

The Jamaican team is quite strong and has about six Test players in it. I hope that my luck in the Test matches is about to change as I have had some real bad luck in some of my innings.

I'm becoming a bit of a cricket statistic these days. I got out to Walsh in Trinidad which was his 500th Test wicket and back in Aussie in `97/'98, I was Warnie's 300th Test wicket.

I don't mind these stats, they happen in cricket, but thankfully the wheel is round and it turns and I think that I have had about enough of the bad luck going around here in the Caribbean and I'm just waiting to cash in when next I bat.

Lastly and to finish off, congrats to WP on winning the Supersport trophy. Our Province boys have done really well this season and fully deserve it when one looks at all the hard work put in.

Anyway guys take care and we'll talk again sometime.

This is Jacques Kallis signing off from Jamaica for CricInfo.

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