Hashim Amla has announced his retirement from all forms of professional cricket, three years after he called time on his international career.
One of South Africa’s greatest batters of all time, Amla excused himself from participating in this year’s County Championship, where he was representing Surrey Cricket Club.
Amla, 39, scored 34,104 runs across all professional formats during his illustrious career spanning over two decades. He amassed 9,282 runs in his 124 Test appearances for South Africa between 2004 and 2019. This included 28 hundreds and an unbeaten 311 against England at the Kia Oval in 2012, which was also the first triple-century in Tests by a South African batter.
He also scored 8113 runs including 27 hundreds in 181 ODIs, and 1,277 runs in 44 T20Is, and has already embarked on a coaching career, with a stint as MI Cape Town’s batting coach in the ongoing SA20.
“It is understood he could be in the running to become South Africa’s batting coach, under the country’s new coaching structure.” reported ESPNcricinfo.
Amla retired from international cricket at the conclusion of South Africa’s World Cup campaign in 2019 and bowed out of Test cricket against Sri Lanka at Gqeberha in February the same year.
Amla was the one of impactful players for Surrey, the club which he rejoined in 2019, in the last two seasons and it was under his stewardship that Surrey lifted the title the previous year.
