Hashim Amla retires from international cricket
South African batsman Hashim Amla has retired from all international cricket with immediate effect.
Amla played 124 Tests, 181 ODIs and 44 T20Is between in his 15-year-long cricketing career.
His more than nine thousand runs in Test cricket are the second-most by a South African cricketer, after the veteran Jacques Kallis.
He also collected the country’s third-most runs in ODI cricket after former skipper AB de Villiers and Kallis.
He went on to make 18,000 runs including 55 centuries and 88 fifty-plus scores across all formats of the game.
He is the only South African to have scored a triple century in the Test format.
Amla currently holds the record for being the fastest ever to 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 ODI runs.
He also became the fastest cricketer to reach 10 ODI centuries.
Test
Matches 124
Runs scored 9,282
ODI
Matches 181
Runs scored 8,113
T20I
Matches 44
Runs scored 1,277
first class
Matches 237
Runs scored 17,765
South African batsman Hashim Amla has retired from all international cricket with immediate effect.
Amla played 124 Tests, 181 ODIs and 44 T20Is between in his 15-year-long cricketing career.
His more than nine thousand runs in Test cricket are the second-most by a South African cricketer, after the veteran Jacques Kallis.
He also collected the country’s third-most runs in ODI cricket after former skipper AB de Villiers and Kallis.
He went on to make 18,000 runs including 55 centuries and 88 fifty-plus scores across all formats of the game.
He is the only South African to have scored a triple century in the Test format.
Amla currently holds the record for being the fastest ever to 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 ODI runs.
He also became the fastest cricketer to reach 10 ODI centuries.
Test
Matches 124
Runs scored 9,282
ODI
Matches 181
Runs scored 8,113
T20I
Matches 44
Runs scored 1,277
first class
Matches 237
Runs scored 17,765
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