Kudos for Amla as he joins elite group
Talismanic Proteas batsman in stellar company as he starts 100th Test in Sri Lanka series
On the eve of his 100th Test, against Sri Lanka at Wanderers Stadium on Thursday‚ Proteas batting talisman Hashim Amla was hailed by teammates Stephen Cook and Wayne Parnell as an undoubted stalwart of the South African game. When he walks on to the hallowed Bullring turf for the third and final Test where SA are aiming for a whitewash‚ Amla will become only the eighth South African to feature in a century of Test matches. He will join an exclusive hundred-club group that features the likes of Jacques Kallis‚ Mark Boucher‚ Graeme Smith‚ Shaun Pollock‚ Makhaya Ntini‚ Gary Kirsten and AB de Villiers. Cook‚ who has known Amla since school days‚ described the batsman as one of the best batsmen SA has produced. "I grew up playing school cricket against him while he was at Durban High School and I was playing for KES‚" Cook said on Tuesday. "I have always known him as a great player and fantastic person. You just have to look at his statistics," Cook said. "I have been fortunate to share ...
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