Top 10 highest individual scores in Tests in the last decade

7. Hashim Amla (South Africa) – 311*:

Amla took strike as South Africa were one wicket down with no score on the board. He was at his very best as he found the gaps at ease and picked up 35 boundaries in style. Amla and Graeme Smith constructed a 259 runs partnership to lift South Africa to an emphatic innings win against England.

Amla spent 790 minutes at the crease and faced 529 balls on his way to a sublime triple. Hashim Amla’s maiden triple century helped the visitors go one up in the series against England.