Hashim Amla Stands out in CSA award cermony
Hashim Amla stands out in the South African Cricket awards ceremony held in South Africa. This award ceremony is arranged every year to recognize the efforts of South African Cricketers and officials, 2010 awards ceremony belonged to Hashim Amla who was awarded with four awards.
Amla grabbed the top awards in the ceremony where he was awarded the highest award South African Player of the year, other awards include South African test player of the year, S.A Player's Player of the year and Cricket South Africa Fans’ Cricketer of the year.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391, 1983 in Durban, Natal province; South Africa. He is of Indian descent as his grandparents migrated from the city of Surat in the Indian province of Gujarat many years back. Amla started his cricketing career playing for his provincial side KwaZulu Natal Dolphins in 2000.
Soon he became the captain of the South Africa U-19 team and represented his team in the 2002 U-19 World Cup played in New Zealand. Hashim continues to play for his domestic side and due to his impressive batting he was made the Captain of the Dolphins when he was only 21 year old. Hashim Amla after being appointed the Dolphin’s Captain in 2004-05 domestic season, scored four century innings in his first eight innings. Due to the impressive averages and scores he made for his side he was selected for the National squad visiting India in the winters of 2004. He became the first player of Indian descent to represent http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 on the International level.
He made his debut on the 28th of November, 2004, in Eden Gardens Calcutta against India. He was not very impressive in the match as he scored 24 runs in the first innings and only 2 in the second innings. He made a slow start in his career and his batting technique was criticized by many, as he was only able to score 34 runs in the 4 match series against England.
After this performance he was dropped from the International side but keeps improving his technique and skills while playing for his domestic side. He made a comeback in the 2006 tour of New Zealand where he scored 149 runs in a match saving innings against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in Newlands, Cape Town and in doing so proved his critics wrong. After this performance he became a regular member of the team and started scoring runs for his side. Due to continuously performing well he attained the number 3 slot in the batting order.
Hashim was also very impressive in the later years of 2008 and 2009, where he scored some match winnings innings against India, England and Australia. His tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 fans in reference to W.G Grace, a legendary English Batsman, due to his long beard that is the common factor between him and W.G Grace.
Hashim Amla’s most successful series was against India, in India, during 2009-10, where he scored his career best of 253 at Nagpur, which is the highest score by any South African against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, as well as the highest score by any number 3 batsman in his country. He was declared Man of the Match in two consecutive test matches and Man of the Series in recognition of his marvelous batting throughout the series. In four test matches he scored 494 runs by only got out once on an average of 494, which is the second highest average in test series after Wally Hammond, an English batsman.
Hashim Amla’s elder brother is also a professional cricketer who plays for Dolphins from last twelve years and currently leads his side. Hashim Amla is the practicing Muslim who doesn’t wear the kit showing alcoholic advertisements.
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