Hashim Amla — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Hashim Amla (born 1983), the former South African cricketer; used for entity facts only. It records his birth in Durban on 31 March 1983, his standing as South Africa's second-highest Test run-scorer with 9,282 runs, his 28 Test and 27 ODI centuries, South Africa's first triple century (311 not out in 2012), his appointment as South Africa's first permanent non-white Test captain in 2014, his international retirement in 2019, and describes him as a devout Muslim of Indian descent.