5 most elegant modern day batsman

2) Hashim Amla

If there was one man who could meditate in the middle of the game, it would be Hashim Amla

As the world around him metamorphosed from the snail paced Test format to the brouhaha of the T20 era, this man somehow managed to retain one facet that has been disappearing ever since the dawn of this new age- Calmness.

He has the elegance of calm. Calm as he walks up to the crease in his green and yellow, his spotless head twinkling in the sunlight. If Virat Kohli was the red in a rainbow, Amla would be the violet; the stark juxtaposition. The calm in the storm.

What is admirable in this particular form of elegance, is the ability of the man to stay old fashioned i.e. rely on timing instead of power, and yet compete for a spot with baby-faced debutants.

If Rohit Sharma could slow the time down, Hashim Amla can roll it back.