Hashim Amla - the jewel in South Africa's cricketing crown

[jind]

anybody know how these ratings work? :hmmm:

[Lord]

no Tendu ranking:fail:

[prinzo]

Yes good question, how does it work, does it get reset every year?

[coffee_rules]

The ratings are based on performances and match conditions from the opinion of a bunch of experts. It used to PW&C Ratings in the golden days. http://www.relianceiccrankings.com/alltime/odi/ Tendlya's is 887 Best ever Test ratings: http://www.relianceiccrankings.com/alltime/test/ Look who's at #3 :woot: 916 SMG 898 God 892 Wall

[Texy]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink, smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.

[CoverDrive]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink' date=' smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.[/quote'] :giggle:

[Old guy]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink' date=' smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.[/quote']

[ravishingravi]

The best batsman in the world strikes again!

[Crookbond]

Amla makes Australia pay for errors

This innings proved that Amla is not invincible. What sets him apart from other batsmen is that he is not affected when his weaknesses are exposed and that can only be because he is comfortable with himself and his batting. Instead of distraction or doubt, Amla only shows determination when a flaw is let out. In the shower of accolades that have rained down on Amla in the last year, there hasn't been too much of a need to examine how he got there. But the reality is that in three of his last four hundreds, Amla has been dropped. Australia were the first guilty party when Michael Hussey put him down in Cape Town last year off the final ball of the day. Amla had a rare rush of blood to the head and drove in the air but got lucky and went on to usher South Africa to victory with Graeme Smith the next day. Amla's offering of chances did not stop there. On his way to his triple-century, he offered a chance when he was on 40 when an edge went the way of Andrew Strauss in the slips. At Lord's two matches later, Amla gloved a short ball down the leg side when he was on 2 and Matt Prior could not hold on.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-south-africa-2012/content/current/story/590485.html

[Sooda]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink' date=' smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.[/quote'] haha.. well put

[Number]

Imagine if his grandparents hadn't migrated. Amla, Sachin, Pujara and Kohli.. no problems in batting.

[Gunner]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink' date=' smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.[/quote'] It's hilarious because it's true.:hysterical:

[Laaloo]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink' date=' smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.[/quote'] Complete opposite of you :--D

[maniac]

Let's face it...this guy doesn't drink' date=' smoke, party, dance, probably doesn't listen to music or watch TV or listen to anything and on top of that he's married and now has a baby at a home. If I was him I would put all my concentration on batting for hours too..my sole entertainment source and excuse to get out of the house.[/quote'] :two_thumbs_up::haha: Doesn't shave either

[prinzo]

When Hashim was captain of the SOUTH AFRICA under 19 team he was clean shaven ,

[CricLind]

Amla has played enough matches (at least in Tests) and shown enough evidence that he will be an ATG and the only other batsman apart from Kallis who merits an inclusion in an All Time SA Text XI among the current cricketers. In Cricinfo's poll, they did have Smith as well, but putting him ahead of more versatile cricketers like Bruce Mitchell and Eddie Barlow was ridiculous.

[BERGKAMP]

take a bow son, he has single handedly destroyed england and australia in their own countries in the space of a few months :hatsoff:

[CG]

You have to praise look how much time and faith was shown during his early period by the sa selectors and captain.

[saneindian]

What a time to thrash the Aussie attack. Series and no 1 rank on the line, early wicket lost on a pitch where 9 wickets had been lost for a little over 150 runs in the day. He came out and titled the balence heavily in SA favour. Wonder whatever happened to the secret dossier of the Aussies to sledge him and derail him.

[punjabi_khota]

take a bow son, he has single handedly destroyed england and australia in their own countries in the space of a few months :hatsoff:

Smith is there too, but yeah,