“Incredible, eh? He’s still the rock, he’ll always be the rock for us. He did it effortlessly; he plays with a lot of class. His game plans are so set, whatever you do he always seems to have an answer for it. It seems like it anyway. Hopefully that form can continue for the rest of the tour.”—South African captain A.B. de Villiers on Hashim Amla’s first big score at the World Cup.

Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2015

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