Virat Kohli's world record broken by Hashim Amla; Twitter brutally trolls the South African

Virat Kohli's held the record for being the fastest to 27 ODI centuries but Hashim Amla broke the record and faced criticism on Twitter for his slow innings.

Virat Kohli Hashim Amla — Amla became the fastest to 27 ODI centuries.Getty Images

Hashim Amla broke Virat Kohli's record on January 19 by becoming the quickest to reach 27 ODI centuries but could not escape the wrath of social media and got trolled for what they deemed to be a selfish innings.

Amla achieved his 27^th ton in his 167^th innings during the first ODI against Pakistan in Port Elizabeth and beat Kohli's mark by just two innings. But Amla's innings did not help his team's cause as he failed to accelerate in the back end of his innings. The opening batsman finished with 108 off 120 balls with a strike rate of 90. While this would be a fantastic innings a decade ago, in the modern game it is deemed unacceptable for a batsman to play the entire 50 overs and not end up with a strike rate of over 100.

Amla did his job well till the 40^th over but when the time came to put the foot on the accelerator he failed to capitalise scoring only 28 runs in the last ten overs. South African skipper, Faf Du Plessis echoed the same emotions while also praising the opposition.

"Those two guys [Imam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez] batted really well but there were probably 15 or 20 more runs that we could have scored if we had pushed a bit harder," said Du Plessis. "Pakistan bowled really well in the middle overs."

South Africa totally deserves what they are getting here from Pakistan, who have been superb. Hashim Amla's selfish innings deserves nothing less than a big defeat.
— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh) January 19, 2019

Pakistan team thanking Hashim Amla for not getting out and settling target under 300?

This win wouldn't have been possible without Hashim Amla. Thank you Hash! #SAvPAK pic.twitter.com/UCoILTxm7A
— Areeba Khan (@AreebaAhmedKhan) January 19, 2019

Sad to see but @hashimamla is getting roasted on social media for not taking risks to score more runs. Criticism is valid though. As a senior player he should have done better. @hershybru #sscricket @KassNaidoo @NeilManthorp @mmbangwa
— Slo Gov (@SLOGANGOV) January 19, 2019

Hashim Amla today in the last 10 overs of the South African innings with the score at 190/1 :

Balls faced 26
Runs only 28#SAvPAK
— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) January 19, 2019

Amla's knock saw the South African score his first ODI century in 15 months and although it was in a losing cause, the team will be happy that he has found form ahead of the 2019 cricket World Cup.