5 best batting knocks from England - South Africa Series

#2. Hashim Amla- Twin fifties (78 and 87) at Trent Bridge, Second Test.

Amla was resilient and classy in the second Test

In the second Test England faced a total of 577 balls in their innings. Hashim Amla faced 329 balls in his two innings in the same Test. The South African batsman alone faced more than half of the balls faced by the entire England team.

This was the difference between the two teams at Trent Bridge. Hashim Amla's half-centuries not only increased South Africa's total score but also negated the threat of England's seamers and made batting easy for other Proteas batsmen.

Both fifties were rich in class and displayed the trademark resilience of the right-hand batsman. In tough conditions, he stood tall, weathering the storm and building South Africa's dominance in the only Test which hosts won in this series.

He scored two hundred run partnerships with Quinton de Kock and Dean Elgar in the first and the second innings respectively and was the chief architect of South Africa's win.