After more than a month out of cricket, Hashim Amla returned for the Cape Cobras franchise in a domestic Twenty20 competition in early April, but his first three matches yielded only 28 runs.
South Africa’s selectors will reveal on Thursday whether veteran batsman Hashim Amla will be part of the country’s squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
He was due to play the final two one-day games against Sri Lanka but withdrew because his father was seriously ill. With captain Faf du Plessis, Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller and JP Duminy all seemingly certain of selection, there is probably room for only two more top-order batsmen in a 15-man squad.Amla’s rivals, Aiden Markram and Reeza Hendricks, have both been in good recent form, with Hendricks named man-of-the-series in the recent Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka after a poor one-day series had seemingly scuttled his chances.
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