Amla clinches timely 26th ton
After year-long dry spell, the superior batsman helps SA to 338/3 against Sri Lanka
Timing is everything for classy batsmen such as Hashim Amla. In choosing his 100th Test to make his 26th Test century‚ a return to form for Amla after his longest dry spell came at just the right time. Before this‚ he went 14 innings without a hundred dating back to the 109 he made against England at SuperSport Park in early 2016. While the aesthetic run plaudits will go to JP Duminy due to his delectable 221-ball 155‚ the significance of Amla’s milestone in SA’s imposing 338/3 on the first day of the third Test against Sri Lanka cannot be ignored. In the process of hammering Rangana Herath down the ground for four off his 169th ball‚ Amla — unbeaten on 125 at the close — became the eighth batsman and second South African to record a ton in his 100th Test. While he made things look easy towards the end of the day, with his wrists finding fluency and his feet moving with their famed mechanical precision‚ it was freight train-shunting stuff in the first session after he came in at 45/...
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