Happy Birthday Hashim Amla: veteran South African cricketer turns 38

New Delhi: Today is the birthday of the legendary South African opener Hashim Amla. Amla turned 38 this year, he retired from the international cricket in 2019.

Amla played his last ODI match against Sri Lanka in 2019 while his test career also ended earlier that year against the same team. Amla scored a total of 18,572 runs in all formats of his International career.

Amla became the first South African to score a triple century in Test cricket, while also effectively shifting gears to become the fastest batsman to 2,000 (40 innings), 3,000 (57 innings), 4,000 (81 innings) and 5,000 (101 innings) runs in ODI cricket.

Here are some of his best knocks: