Hashim Mahomed Amla[1][2] OIS (born 31 March 1983) is a South African former international cricketer who captained the national side in Tests and ODIs.

[8] He was raised in a middle-class home and sent to the Durban High School, which is also the alma mater of Lance Klusener and Barry Richards.

Amla was picked for the 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL) by the Kings XI Punjab as a replacement for Shaun Marsh, after the latter's injury.

[18][19] Just before the 2020 Pakistan Super League season, Hashim Amla replaced Younus Khan as batting mentor for Peshawar Zalmi.

[22] Upon being appointed captain of the Dolphins, Amla began the 2004–2005 South African domestic season by scoring four centuries during his first eight innings.

[7][23] Making his debut at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on 28 November 2004, he initially made a slow start to his career, with his technique having been criticized after scoring 36 runs in the 2004 series against England.

[1][13] He subsequently continued this success, earning a national contract and scoring 1599 runs at an average of 57.10 in his next 19 Tests, solidifying his position as South Africa's regular number 3 batsman.

[7] His success throughout the 2008 year, in which he scored 1012 runs, consisted of numerous centuries and solid performances against India, England and Australia.

In April 2009, he was signed by Essex as their overseas player for a portion of the 2009 English county season, as a short-term replacement for Danish Kaneria.

India batted and scored 643 with centuries from Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni.

He made 45 in the fifth and final ODI before he was run-out by Kieron Pollard as South Africa won narrowly by one wicket.

The three-match Test series was one where Amla performed consistently but didn't register any centuries, he top scored with 44.

The second ODI saw Amla score 110 as South Africa cruised to an 8 wicket victory and sealed the three match series with one game to spare.

Amla scored a quickfire half century in the second ODI before being given out lbw to a Shahid Afridi leg break, despite this good knock from Amla and 286 from South Africa, they couldn't win the match courtesy of a superb century by Abdul Razzaq scoring 109 off just 73 balls.

Following these excellent performances in the ODI format Amla was selected in the 12-man Twenty20 squad against India, at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.

[38] He scored 311 not out in a man of the match performance while fasting as South Africa defeated England by an innings and 12 runs.

[42] In August 2013, it was announced that Amla had signed for Surrey, for whom he made a limited number of appearances in domestic matches.

[45] In June 2014, Amla became South Africa's first permanent non-white Test captain (although Ashwell Prince had it temporarily), ahead of the Sri Lanka tour following Graeme Smith's retirement.

The second Test, the one after which Amla announced his resignation, ended in a draw after a double hundred from the South African captain.

In August 2017, he was named in a World XI side to play three Twenty20 International matches against Pakistan in the 2017 Independence Cup in Lahore.

[60] After retiring from international cricket, he joined Cape Town Blitz franchise team as a batting consultant for the 2019 Mzansi Super League tournament.

[61] Later in December, Amla headed one of the teams of Qatar T10 League, Falcon Hunters, as the leading international batsmen.

[62] In January 2020, Pakistan Super League franchise Peshawar Zalmi signed Amla as team's batting mentor for the 2020 season.

[7] After the incident, Jones reportedly apologized to Amla, stating that his comments were never "supposed to be heard over the air", which he accepted.