Hashim Amla is a selected member of the WAT South Africa A Team 2005/6. . Thanks to his South African franchise, the Dolphins and his agents, Boundary Breakers, we managed to get in touch with Hashim and were given the opportunity to ask him a few questions.

Hashim has, at the age of 23 become a household name to cricket fans worldwide, not only for the fact that he created history in South Africa by becoming the first South African of Indian descent to play for the Proteas, but mostly for his elegant, classical stroke-play. Hashim first came to attention as a key player in the South Africa Under-19 team in 2000, before being elevated to the captaincy in 2002 for the Under-19 World Cup. It wasn’t long before he was seen playing for South Africa A, scoring an accomplished 81 alongside the then vastly more experienced Darryl Cullinan against a very strong Australia A team.

After a rich vein of run scoring for KwaZulu-Natal in 2004, Hashim found himself in the running for a position in the Proteas middle-order for the tour to India. If his test debut in India, and subsequent spot in the home series against England came slightly too early for Hashim [scoring a disappointing 52 in 5 innings], then when he was recalled for the home series against New Zealand he was ready.

In his first innings back in the Test side, at Cape Town, Hashim racked up an impressive 149 runs against a strong New Zealand line-up; in the process helping South Africa secure a draw which had looked in doubt when New Zealand compiled 593-8. Hashim followed this up with another 50 at Johannesburg. If he can keep up performances like these, a permanent slot in the South African middle order is his for the taking!


To read the full interview, see http://www.world-a-team.net/content/view/89/28/

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