Hashim Amla, who has been in good form and had scored his second 100 in this year’s IPL. In the match between Kings XI Punjab and Gujarat Lions at Mohali, Amla scored an unbeaten 59-ball century to lift his team KXIP to 189/3 in 20 overs. This was Amla’s 2nd hundred in this year’s IPL which shows his consistency at the top of the order for Kings XI.

Earlier, Amla had scored an unbeaten 104 against Mumbai Indians. That was his maiden T20 century. Amla’s 59-ball century included eight boundaries and five towering sixes. Amla also became only the third player ever to score two or more centuries in one season of the cash-rich league.

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As soon as Amla scored a century but was dismissed off the next ball as he missed a delivery from Dhawal Kulkarni and was adjudged LBW. Despite Amla’s century, the subject of the discussion was one of his innovative shots during the match.

His 5th boundary of the innings, which came off Basil Thampi’s bowling in the 17th over, was a subject of discussion. As Thampi came closer to the bowling crease, Amla shaped up to play the scoop shot over the short fine-leg over. Watching the batsman move, Thampi was quick to adjust his line and bowled wider to not let Amla scoop.

It was a game within a game as the right-hander saw the bowler’s strategy and changed his shot immediately. He went inside the line of the wide Yorker and played the reverse scoop which beat the short third-man fielder by 5 yards to rocket into the boundary. That was amazing cricketing skills by Amla.

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Can anyone give a name to this shot? What a brilliant knock by Amla #KXIPvGL pic.twitter.com/0cbotnhuc2

— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) May 7, 2017

The shot wasn’t an orthodox shot by any stretch of the imagination. Despite Amla’s wonderful skills with his bat and scored a century, Gujarat Lions beat KXIP by 6 wickets.