How To Get Hashim Amla OUT

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Disclaimer : This post has been written just after the completion of 2nd test between India and South Africa. India somehow managed to pull off of victory in the match in dying moments and hence saved their no.1 ranking. But in the process the faced a resilient Hashim Amla. This post is dedicated to the South African batsman of Indian origin.
Indian bowlers found dismissing Hashim Amla as tough as we faced yesterday to perform a mass bunk! The bearded guy amassed 490 runs in the series with being dismissed just once. He had scores of 253*, 114 and 123* in the 3 innings he played. Whatever plans the Indian bowlers had for him didn’t work certainly. So I thought of few ways to stop him during my free time (i.e. during a lecture!). Have a look at them:
1. Bowl an excellent delivery to take his wicket(seems easy but ask the Indian bowlers how tough it is!)
2. Put some lice in his long and thick beard so that he would get out scratching around.
3. Position many close-in fielders & ask them to chant “TERRORIST” whenever he is on strike(hope you remember the incident) and hope that he loose his cool and does something rash. And don’t worry about any racist charges on the team because Indian team knows how to deal with such situation thanks to the Aussies.
4. Ask some character like Sreesanth to bowl a good beamer well ahead from his bowling crease
which connects him on his head( as Sreesanth did to Pieterson though he missed his target!!).
5. Ask some tough guy in the team to knock him down while taking run to get him run out(remember the Shoaib-Sachin incident in the Asia Cup 1999 at Eden Garden?).
6. Ask someone like Badrinath(who might not feature in any more series) to bang the ball on his head from the short leg postion(backward short leg would be a better position to aim to back of his head). Though in such case Wriddhiman Saha would be most suitable as he would be able to justify his selection and worth in the team!!

So here were my few ideas(thought during the lecture of 45mins duration) to dismiss Amla. Have you got any?? You can share it in the comments section. Feel free to innovate or get as low as you can because for me victory is far more important than Sportsman Spirit.
What about you???

5 comments:

{ Hitesh Mishra } at: February 18, 2010 at 5:33 AM said...

That was a good1 buddy..For a news,he's included in the ODI squad against India replacing Smith..
Now as far as i'm concerned India doesn't need to fear much as seeing Amla's form and strike-rate,if he bats through the innings India wont get anything more than 250 to chase/defend.

{ Bitanshu } at: February 18, 2010 at 5:40 AM said...

yeah..........let him play the ODIs.......he has got only 1 six in test match till date...
time for indian bowlers to better their economy bowling against Amla

{ maharshi } at: February 18, 2010 at 7:15 AM said...

a p***dy on the big screen....but there's one thing the indian players shud show self control

{ Ashesh Raghav } at: February 18, 2010 at 7:45 AM said...

gud one bro !

And yes, i didn't know that Hashim Amla is of Indian origin. So in that sense your post is an evoking one.

happy blogging !!

{ aakash } at: February 18, 2010 at 8:49 AM said...

that's a nice post bro!
if Amla gets to play in the SA squad, India won't even get to chase 250-that would be a very big total considering Amla's 'exceptional' batting 'skills'..
but we should applaud him for nearly avoiding defeat for his team..