South Africa: The South Africa team is currently playing a one-day series against Afghanistan. In the ongoing one-day series against Afghanistan, South Africa has suffered a humiliating defeat in the first two matches.

Today, instead of giving you information about the current position of South Africa in world cricket, we are going to tell you about the triple century scored by a legendary batsman of South Africa who was also considered the Tendulkar of the South African cricket team.

Hashim Amla scored a triple century in Test cricket for South Africa

Former South African great batsman Hashim Amla has played many match-winning innings for his country, but in the year 2012, when the South African team was on a tour of England, Hashim Amla scored his first and only triple century in Test cricket.

Hashim Amla did this feat at the Oval ground in London. Hashim Amla played an unbeaten innings of 311 runs on 529 balls for South Africa. Due to this innings of Hashim Amla, the South African team defeated England by an innings and 12 runs in the match.

Hashim Amla batted in Tendulkar's style in that innings

Hashim Amla batted in the style of Sachin Tendulkar to score a triple century in the Test match against England in 2012. He batted patiently on the difficult pitches of England and played shots with a straight bat. Hashim Amla played most of the shots in the front V in that innings.

Due to which, people started calling Hashim Amla as Tendulkar in the dressing room. For this reason, many South African cricket fans were also seen calling him African Tendulkar during his cricketing days.

The situation of the competition was something like this

Talking about the scorecard of that match, England batted first and scored 385 runs. In response to which, South Africa scored 637 runs for the loss of 2 wickets with the help of Hashim Amla's triple century, Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis's centuries and declared the innings. After which England's team scored 240 runs in the second innings and in this way South Africa won the match by an innings and 12 runs.