HASHIM AMLA: Failed With The Bat First Game As Captain

[quote author=The Chairman link=topic=91298.msg576168#msg576168 date=1405866150]
did you question a 370 declaration?
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* With Sri Lanka on 110/1 at the end of day 4.

* And with the great Sangakkara unbeaten on 58*

* And with the illustrious Jayawardene yet to bat.

* And with Sri Lanka only losing 1 test series at home since 2006.

* I asked the question---DID AMLA DECLARE TOO EARLY ?

* But with the #1 and #3 ranked bowlers in the world----the South Africans destroyed the Lankans on day 5.

Rev

[quote author=Rev link=topic=91298.msg576171#msg576171 date=1405866684]

* I asked the question---DID AMLA DECLARE TOO EARLY ?
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hahaha....chutzpah ....pronounced hootspa ....is a Yiddish term :

meaning ? ...de big balls of a fasting muslim  ::LOL::

Hashim Amla FAILED with the BAT and was still able to DECLARE :

and WIN by 153 runs ..

CAPTAINCY appears to agree with this chap !!  8)

Maybe the burden of captaincy has gotten to him like it did many great players. I don't think he should be captain if it continues to affect his batting performances. The job of captain should be given to maybe a bowler so that the batsmen can concentrate on batting.

amla has all the tools to be a great captain. only one game so far and he won it.

Well done to the Mighty Hash.

First win in Lanka for almost 14 years and should he win the series, it would be the first since their first tour 21, or so, years ago.

Lanka won the last 2 series on home soil in 2004 and 2006.

[quote author=Rohan99 link=topic=91298.msg576549#msg576549 date=1405985028]
Maybe the burden of captaincy has gotten to him like it did many great players. I don't think he should be captain if it continues to affect his batting performances. The job of captain should be given to maybe a bowler so that the batsmen can concentrate on batting.

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Or maybe a fielder so the bowler can concentrate on bowling...lol.

It is his first test in charge so do take it steadily.

[quote author=Mail link=topic=91298.msg576563#msg576563 date=1405985911]
Or maybe a fielder so the bowler can concentrate on bowling...lol.
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and when a catch flies to him just when he was thinking a bowling change ?  :-\

Amla should have done the honorable thing and recluse himself from cricket during Ramadan .
Going without food can make one Lethargic    and incapable of performing at peak.
Reason that he failed with bat.

I also believed  that Amla should have never been  made captain
This position should have been given  to a black person , even one with less abilities .
Him being made captain is just window dressing to show that the white establishment who controls cricket in South    Africa has changed from the apartheid mode .