HASHIM AMLA THE POWERFUL BATSMAN OF SOUTH AFRICA

Hashim Amla the right-handed upper order batsman and occasional medium-pace bowler of  south African cricket team. Nowadays he is playing excellent cricket, he is a leading run scorer for south African team.  Amla has a talent batting capability. Hashim Amla was the captain of south Africa at the 2002 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand and  leading his team to the final. Amla has been honoured with the South African Cricketer of the Year.

Full name:        Hashim Mahomed Amla

Born:                 March 31, 1983, Durban, Natal

Current age:    27 years 317 days

Major teams:   South Africa, Dolphins, Essex, KwaZulu-Natal

Playing role:    Top-order batsman

Batting style:   Right-hand bat

Bowling style:  Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Amla is an elegant, stroke-filled player blessed with the temperament to make the most of his talent.He played  four centuries in his first eight innings of the 2004-05 season. He made his Test debut against India in 2004-05. He was not an instant success. He made serious questions emerging about his technique.  Amla has remained soft spoken at the crease but most of the time he very keen to concentrate on playing a great innings. He solidified himself as a top notch player. During England's 2009-10 tour of South Africa, Amla was an integral member of the side throughout the series, scoring a crucial century in the first Test at Centurion and contributing important innings during the rest of the series. His performances also saw him move up the ICC Test Batting rankings.

Hashim Amla’s Batting and fielding averages:

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	ct	st
Tests	51	90	7	3897	253*	46.95	7756	50.24	12	19	483	5	46	0
ODIs	42	41	5	2156	140	59.88	2305	93.53	7	12	218	11	16	0
T20Is	3	3	0	53	26	17.66	53	100.00	0	0	4	1	0	0
First-class	138	230	21	10202	253*	48.81			31	51			109	0
List A	95	93	7	3775	140	43.89			10	23			36	0
Twenty20	27	26	0	556	57	21.38	500	111.20	0	2	66	6	3	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	51	4	42	28	0	-	-	-	4.00	-	0	0	0
ODIs	42	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	138		315	224	1	1/10		224.00	4.26	315.0	0	0	0
List A	95		16	28	0	-	-	-	10.50	-	0	0	0
Twenty20	27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Amla is the greatest modern day cricketers. Amla is one of the first South Africans of Indian lineage playing in the national squad for the Proteas. Amla was hooked to cricket by his older brother Ahmed Amla. The older Amla was also a cricketer with many considering him to be a better player than his younger brother. Hasim Amla’s motivation and passion is humble about his achievements. He said that “I have much to prove, I need to score centuries away from home to prove myself”. Amla entered into International cricket by playing domestic First-class cricket in South Africa. He has played 138 matches having an immense scoring figure above 10000 runs. The young 27-year-old cricketer is an impressive player in One Day International matches as well. He has featured in 42 ODI matches scoring 2156 with the highest score of 140 and an average of 59.88 runs. Amla made his debut against Bangladesh in 2008 at Chittagong. He was a rock for the team in his last ODI match against India in the home series. He scored 116 not out and secured a victory for his team by 33 runs. During his ODI career, Amla has scored 12 fifties and seven centuries. ICC world cup 2011 is starting soon so, Amla feels a lot of expectations attached with the team were the reason behind its failure in lifting the coveted trophy but since there is less pressure and hype around the side this time,it might go in their favour,“This created huge expectations and placed great pressure on the boys but that is something we are not experiencing now. Captain Graeme Smith expects Amla to play an important role for the team. Smith feels that their middle-order will provide a lot of assistance to the team to help them lift the trophy as Champions of the World Cup. If Amla  become fit he will make a good performance in world cup.  His contribution to South African cricket will go beyond the World Cup and well into the future. He remains a candidate to become South Africa's second non-white Test captain after Ashwell Prince and possesses the most impressive beard in all the game.