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No, I don’t miss Test cricket, as I played enough: Amla
SYLHET, Jan 2, 2020 (BSS) – Even though time and again, Hashim Amla showed
his likings towards the Test cricket more than the ODI and T20 format, he
insisted that following his retirement, he is not missing the longer version
format much.
He said he is now looking forward to explore franchise-based cricket here
and there and wants to share his experience with his mates in different part
of the horizon.
“No I don’t miss Test cricket as you get to a stage where you have played
enough. I am happy and grateful. Certainly whatever little value I can add
with my experience, I enjoy sharing them. It’s the next chapter and I don’t
miss international cricket one bit,” Amla said here today.
“After the world cup I took some time and consulted with people close to
me. Although there may still be a few years left in my body and I feel fresh
and good to go, everything has its time. Everything has to move on and you
have to stop at some place.”
Amla retired from all forms of international cricket on August 2019,
bringing down the curtains on a stellar 15-year career.
He is the Proteas’ second-highest Test run scorer with 9,282 runs in 124
matches at an average of 46.64 with 28 centuries. He is the only South Africa
batsman to score a Test triple hundred – 311 not out against England in 2012.
Amla was South Africa Test captain between 2014 and 2016, the team’s first
permanent non-white captain. In total, he scored more than 18,000 runs across
all formats for South Africa with 55 centuries in 349 matches and has been
ranked as the number one batsman in both Test and one-day international
cricket in various point of his career.
He scored 27 ODI centuries, the most by a South Africa batsman, and scored
8,113 runs at an average of 49.46 in the format.
”I am really enjoying and every chapter of my life is exciting one and I
was very fortunate to play international cricket as long as I did and really
grateful for that,” he said.
“But now it’s another chapter and thankfully I got a chance to play in the
BPL. Obviously having those international commitments all these years I don’t
get that opportunity but now it’s a good time and I am really happy to be
here,” he said.
“I was very keen to play because every country has its unique flavor and
experience of BPL is something that I am looking forward,” he added.
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