Last week, it was Sourav Ganguly and Saeed Anwar, who went head-to-head, not physically but in a bout of stats that was fought till the very end. But really, was it the best that you could ever witness? While they have not won a World Cup, there sure is a chance that someone might go home as the winner following this bout. 

Don’t we all want to see both of them get into the ring and have a go at each other’s gigantic figure in the stats corner? Oh, it’s going to be a hell of a fight, I reckon. 

And, the bout has just begun, both of them are circling each other, moving in tandem, a synchronised beauty. Out of nowhere, there comes an attempted punch from Rohit which Amla manages to move away. Wait, what has happened here? We have the wrong visuals in play, it was Amla who landed the first punch with a career average of 49.46 over Rohit’s 49.27. 

Amla gets himself off to a great start, two punches without a reply from the Indian opener. It has started very well like Rohit’s career, slow to begin with but can he make a comeback? Talking about this punch, Amla’s average in foreign conditions is a tens apart from Rohit’s at 46.83 to 38.48. 

At home, Rohit is a different ‘beast,’ he can punch and punch so ‘hard.’ Rohit’s 63 is so marginal compared to Amla’s 54.65 which has indeed caught the South African by surprise. With that, Rohit Sharma gets one at the top of the order. But the contest is not over, does it look like?

He’s back, another one bites the dust for Amla! After a strong start, Amla continues to ‘choke’ here just like his team in a major ICC competition. Rohit’s strong form in neutral venues with an average of 52.95 is a massive ‘W’ for him and an ‘L’ for Amla who averages 44.82. 

Oh, he needs no introduction, it is Rohit Sharma! Major tournaments call in for a major player and hence Rohit continues his dominance. Amla averages 38.5 in major tournaments while Rohit continues dominating with 59. Three straight wins for the ‘R’ rated superstar - Rohit Sharma. 

Okay, it was a round of surprise and that’s for sure. No one expected Rohit to have such a low strike rate in ODIs, with an 88.92 strike rate. But, more scarily, the right-handed South African almost equalled it with 88.39 before he fell out of form, both in cricket and in the boxing rout. He started well surely but Rohit has become the ‘king-pin’ here!! 

Boy-oh-boy has he not come back into the contest at the right time! Just when it started to threaten away from his hands, Amla landed an undercut to the jaw. And, it's by a tiny margin, with Amla’s 40.9 edging past Rohit’s 40.27. Right then, we got a contest in our hands! 

That sound, that deafening silence clearly has started to fill the stadium. Fan favourite Rohit is back to getting the punches from Amla. And, you can see it on his face, Rohit is sweating more in the ring than he does in Mumbai. Amla’s 29 half-centuries is a tall one in front of Rohit’s 22. With that, he’s slowly creeping his way back into the contest!!

Looks like he is a bit of a fighter, or as it looks like! Amla has FRICKING 24 hundreds against Rohit’s 22. He really does like ‘three figures,’ doesn’t he? Oh boy oh boy! We have a really head-to-head fought battle, never seen in such competence. And, today it really looks like we might have to separate them after the fight... 

Come’ on Rohit, chants a young fan! Little does he know that the events in the ring are completely opposite of what he wants. His hero, the mighty ‘R’ that some say is even better than Super ‘V’ is down. Is he down for the bout? Is it done with Amla’s strike rate of 83.54 over Rohit’s 82.99? No, he is trying to get back on his feet! 

No one is taking the contest away from Rohit’s hands, not even the ‘record-breaker,’ Amla. It is Rohit with the comeback, that punch straight towards Amla’s cheeks. And, he spits blood, oh things are getting serious and it looks like the fight is going down in history. Mumbaikar's 63.37 is ahead of Amla by a margin. With one round to go, what are we going to witness?

It was Amla who landed the final blow on Rohit! But, is it the end of this contest? The right-handed South African’s 37.52 average against India is surely more than Rohit’s 33.3 against India. And with that, everything comes to an end. Do we have a result??? Ya, it looks like Amla might edge it by one. Hang on, we are wrong again, it is a FRICKINNNNN TIE! WHAT A CONTEST!

FINAL SCORE: 112-112