After South African legend Hashim Amla introduced his retirement from all types of cricket on Wednesday, batting nice AB de Villiers penned a lovely notice for his pal and former batting companion.
“Hashim Amla.. the place do I begin?! It’s not simple. It might take me days, weeks, months, years.
“I could literally write a book about you.”
Thanking him for at all times being there and treating him like a brother, de Villiers wrote, ‘Humaim, thanks for at all times being there for me. You have at all times been a brother who made me really feel protected in additional methods than one.
Hashim Amla.. the place do I start?! It’s not simple. It might take me days, weeks, months, years.
I might actually write a ebook about you.
Humaim, thanks for at all times being with me. You have at all times been a brother who made me really feel safe in additional methods than one.
— AB de Villiers (@ABdeVilliers17) January 18, 2023
Hashim Amla retired from cricket after serving to Surrey to the English County Championship final yr.
The 39-year-old had already retired from worldwide cricket after the World Cup in 2019.
Amla scored 18,672 runs throughout all three codecs for the Proteas from 2004–2019 and is South Africa’s second highest Test run scorer of all time behind Jacques Kallis. This included a 28 ton and a profession finest 31* towards England on the Kia Oval in 2012, which was additionally South Africa’s first triple century in Tests.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS