SA team will have Amla’s back

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Pretoria

Hashim Amla need not look over his shoulder to know whether his players have his back when he takes charge of SA’s test team in Sri Lanka next month.

The almost 10 years Amla has spent at or near the top as a test batsman and his discipline and humility have already won him support as he seeks to fill the chasm Graeme Smith’s retirement in March would have left.

“We want to play well for Hashim to make his job a little bit easier,” Morne Morkel said yesterday.

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