Amla will ‘give my heart’ to captaincy

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

Commonsense among sport suits can be a rare commodity, but Cricket SA’s (CSA) board got it right yesterday by confirming Hashim Amla as the national team’s test captain.

CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat said Amla was the “unanimous recommendation of the selectors”, and that “the board did not take much convincing” to seal the deal.

Not that the board could go far wrong with candidates of the calibre of Amla, AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis to choose from....