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The South African great Hashim Amla was one of the game's most impressive big hundred players at one point of time, and, in the 1st Test of the series in England at the Oval back in 2012, he showed exactly why.

England batted first and made 385 in their 1st innings, but the visitors' first innings completely blew them away and a large part of that was due to Amla's 790-minute vigil at the crease that saw him score an unbeaten 311.

He came in to bat on the 5th delivery of the 3rd over and remained at the crease till the innings finished in the 189th over. The right-hander faced 529 deliveries and hit 35 boundaries, as South Africa piled up 637 for the loss of only 2 wickets. Their bowlers did the job in the second innings as England crashed to an innings and 12 runs defeat.

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