Hashim Amla thrashed ENglush bowlers as if they were some club bowlers and played in
elegant style thus scoring 150 runs and succeeded in honouring himself with world record of becoming the batsman to reach 3000 ODI runs in just 57 innings and 12 outings less than, previous record holder, legendary destructive West Indian Batsman Vivian Richards.
The fact that most in the know predicted Hashim would only ever be a test batsman, at the start of his international career, makes this achievement even more impressive. He has taken ‘proving your critics wrong’ to a whole new level.
The humble opener now has an ODI average of 58.28, which is edging ever closer to that 60 mark(which is pretty much unheard of) it is also comfortably the highest ODI average by any batsman from the major cricket playing nations. It would be very hard for anyone to argue against Amla being the best ODI batsman in the world at the moment. Just to put it into perspective, recent great ODI opening batsman like Chris Gayle(39.43), Matthew Hayden(43.80), Sachin Tendulkar(44.83), Sanath Jayasurya(32.36), Adam Gilchrist(35.89), Graeme Smith(39.11), etc. all have averages well below 50.
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