Hashim Amla Retirement News
Hashim Amla Retired: A hero in South Africa, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Wednesday. The county team Surrey’s official Twitter account confirmed. Amla retired from international cricket in 2019. However, he continued to play for Surrey in English county cricket. Amla led Surrey to the County Championship title in 2022 and amassed more than 18,000 runs during his international career. He achieved 57 centuries in first-class cricket. With the most recent being against Northamptonshire in September 2022. Let us look at the details of Hashim Amla retirement.
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“I have great memories of the Oval ground and to finally leave it as a player fills me with immense gratitude for what has been. A sincere thank you to (director of cricket) Alec Stewart and the entire Surrey staff, players and members for their support,” he said while announcing his retirement.
“The Surrey ship runs so professionally that it would make any international player feel a sense of honour just to be involved with. I wish them all the best and many more trophies,” he added.
Amla’s International career
Amla, 39, amassed 34,104 runs throughout the course of a two-decade career in all professional formats. 9,282 of which came in his 124 Test matches from 2004 to 2019, second only to Jacques Kallis for his nation. He scored 28 centuries in the process.
In 181 ODIs, he amassed 8113 runs, including 27 hundreds, and 1,277 in 44 T20Is.
Amla announced his retirement from international cricket at the end of South Africa’s World Cup campaign in 2019. Having played his final Test match at Gqeberha against Sri Lanka in February that year.
After stints with Derbyshire, Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, and Essex, as well as representing the country as an international player in 2013 and 2014. He returned to Surrey. Additionally, he played for Kwa-Zulu Natal, Dolphins, and Cape Cobras in South Africa’s domestic leagues, as well as Kings XI Punjab in the IPL.
Stewart lavishes praise on Hashim Amla
Stewart, who has worked with Amla during his time at Surrey, praised Amla as a “true professional and a great of the game”.
“Everyone at Surrey County Cricket Club will be sad to see Hashim retire. But we all applaud what has been a phenomenal career. He will quite rightly go down as a great of the game,” Stewart said.
“Hashim is a fantastic cricketer and a wonderful person. He has been an incredible resource for the team to learn from on and off the field.
“Everyone at Surrey wishes him the best in the future, and I am sure all our Members and supporters would like to thank him for his time here. And congratulate him on such a decorated career.”
One of the highlights of Amla’s career was, he set a South African record by scoring 311 runs unbeaten in the first Test at The Oval in London. While batting alongside the team’s captain Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, and AB de Villiers. It is still the only triple century in Tests for South Africa.
