Team takes precedence over individual goals: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HM-Amla-c1557 – Cricket News Update
South African batsman Hashim http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at the Kennington Oval on July 22.
“I'm just really grateful that I managed to get the highest score by a South African, but what is perhaps more pleasing is that I'm the first guy to get 300,” said Amla.
“... records will be broken, there's no doubt about that, so that comes and goes,” he added. “But I think the biggest pleasure is that the team is in a really dominant position to win this test match. I think that's the biggest joy.”
Looking to best England’s first innings score of 385, the South African batsmen rose to the occasion, with skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598, and an unbeaten 377-run partnership with Kallis.
Amla’s innings enabled him to nab a handful of records – his unbeaten 311 becomes the 20th highest all-time individual Test score in an innings (with the highest being Brian Lara’s 400* against England in 2003-04), the first Test triple hundred by a South African batsman and consequently the highest individual score by a Proteas batsman in Tests (beating out http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in November 2010), and the sixth triple Test hundred ever scored in England.
However, stressing on the transient nature of records, the right-hander, whose heroics put his team firmly in the lead during the ongoing Test, claimed that he had received greater satisfaction from ensuring that the Proteas established an upper-hand over their hosts.
The tourists, looking to grab the top Test team spot, finished their second innings with a massive total of 637 at the expense of just 2 wickets, with England’s fearsome pace attack powerless to make any dents in their opposition’s batting order.
Faced with the final day of the Test, with their top Test team status hanging by a thread, the Poms find themselves at 102 for 4 and trailing by 150 runs, with the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adrian-Roger-Kirshaw-Pierson-c42135 it out at the crease.
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