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Amla, de Villiers enter 7k and 8k clubs respectively

| | Jan 05, 2016, at 07:24 am
Cape Town, Jan 5 (IBNS) South Africa's Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers had a memorial day on Monday as the duo raced past 7000 and 8000 run-mark in Test cricket respectively.

Playing his 90th Test match, Amla took 152 innings to cross the 7000 run-mark and finished fourth in the list of quickest South African to get to the mark, behind former skipper Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers.

The Proteas skipper who remained unbeaten at 157 on the third day of the second Test match against England is also the fastest South African to score 24 Test centuries in terms of innings played.

Amla's 152 innings to reach the mark is 12 better than Kallis, who took 164 innings for the same.

AB's 8000 runs came in his 172nd innings, and is the second fastest South African after Kallis (170 innings) to do so.

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