5 cricketers who made a successful transition from Tests to T20s

#3. Hashim Amla- The nice man of cricket delivers

Hashim Amla is the epitome of patience and concentration. These qualities made him highly successful in Tests but the same qualities stamped him as unfit to excel in T20s.

But for Amla, no task is daunting and the South African, to everyone's surprise, succeeded in this format as well. He used the same technique of Test cricket to excel in T20s. In the shorter format, he simply reduced his dot ball percentage and focused on rotating the strike.

His heroics in the 2017 edition of IPL surprised everyone as he amassed two hundreds and averaged 44.38. However, a deeper look at his T20 statistics shouldn't make his IPL success a surprise as he has always remained a prolific hitter in T20s.

He averages 33.75 in 116 T20 innings and that too with a strike rate of 128.57. He scores a boundary every 5.97 balls which make him not too far away from Kieron Pollard (5.08 balls) and David Warner (4.93 balls).

However what sets Amla apart from the rest is his elegant strokes and classy demeanor which is a rarity in T20 cricket.