Top 5 batsmen with best Innings-to-Hundred ratio in international cricket

2 Hashim Amla (7.35 innings per hundred)

Amla at the peak of his powers in England, 2012.

The batsman from South Africa, Hashim Amla powers his way to this coveted list at number 2. Earmarked as a prodigious talent, Amla led South Africa in the 2002 U-19 World Cup and was handed his Test debut two years later against India in 2004/05.

Despite him establishing his credentials as a Test batsman with a glittering 149 against New Zealand and an outstanding tour of India in 2010, where he amassed a barely believable 490 runs in three innings and never looked to get out. Amla's finest hour in Test cricket though arrived in the English summer of 2012, where a fasting Amla in an innings of grit and resilience played a marathon inning of 311 and thus became the first South African ever to score a triple ton.

However, despite being a prolific run scorer at Test level, there were constant apprehensions from fans and pundits alike, about his prowess as a limited-overs batsman. Amla quickly dispelled those apprehensions with a 102 and 92 in two matches of the five-match series between West Indies and the Proteas, establishing his might as a prolific limited overs accumulator.

Amla en route to 7421 ODI runs to date became the fastest to reach each of 1000,2000,3000,4000,5000,6000 and 7000 runs ODI runs, a testament to his astonishing levels of consistency. In a glittering career of 14 years, Amla has become a bedrock of South Africa's batting, an astonishing 54 hundred of formats bore a testimony to it.