Hashim Amla, South Africa’s legendary batter retires from all forms of cricket.

One of South Africa’s most legendary batters, Hashim Amla, has declared his retirement from all forms of cricket after telling Surrey he wouldn’t be coming back to assist the club defend the County Championship championship it won in his final season as a player in 2022.

Amla, 39, amassed 34,104 runs throughout the course of a two-decade career in all professional formats, 9,282 of which came in his 124 Test matches from 2004 to 2019, second only to Jacques Kallis for his nation. This featured 28 hundreds as well as a record of 311 not out against England at the Kia Oval in 2012—South Africa’s first triple-century in Test matches.

He added 8113 more runs, including 27 hundreds, in 181 ODIs and 1,277 more in 44 T20Is. He has now started a teaching career, serving as the batting coach for MI Cape Town in the current SA20. According to the new coaching system in place in South Africa, he may be a candidate to serve as the nation’s batting coach.