It can be said without much doubt that one of the most successful and widely admired batters in all of Proteas cricket is a certain Hashim Amla. A fact that perhaps won’t be contested for times to come. For possessing a wonderful technique, an attacking style that complimented his ability to watch the ball late, Amla was a rampant and fluent scorer whose brisk run making abilities found him the adoration of worldwide cricket loving fans. From 181 matches and 176 innings, to be precise, Amla struck 8110 plus runs in men’s senior fifty over cricket.

So by that logic when he picks his key batters to watch out for in the 50-over World Cup that’s due to be largely hosted by South Africa, his own nation in late 2027, you are bound to get excited by the choices that the veteran right hander makes.

To that end, it helps to note that Hashim Amla has selected three eminent, world class and record breaking batters where it comes to those he’ll be closely following in the next year’s mega ICC global fest in the form of the 50-over World Cup.

Each of these batters are from India, Australia and South Africa, respectively. Gladly, there’s a quintessential Proteas talent with the bat in there as well as far as the top three in Amla’s standing goes!

The daring Proteas talent To begin with, there’s Dewald Brevis who at the moment is playing to the peak of his powers and has nicely settled into the role of a big run scorer towards the lower middle order of an already powerful looking South African team. Brevis has some outstanding strokes in his kitty and that no look shot that usually goes beyond the ropes is something that’s as unmistakably remarkable as the magnetic pull of T20 cricket in this current era.

Moving on, there’s Travis Head in Hashim Amla’s list of 3 batters to closely watch; the Aussie’s remarkable ability to hit big especially in closely fought games and high octane tournaments makes him a very dangerous batter and perhaps the top of the tree as far as the present generation’s left hander’s go! The Indian team will remember his century in the last odi World Cup final that spoiled the hosts’ plans to dominate at their own home turf.

Finally, there’s the great man Rohit Sharma, with north of 11,100 one day international runs in Hashim Amla’s tally of the best 3 to watch out for in the World Cup next year. Sharma recently flayed the England attack to all corners of the epic Lord’s cricket ground as he hit a hundred so spectacular that his name ended up on the Lord’s honour board as the man from India with the highest score in ODI cricket at the very legendary venue.

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Let’s hope that each of these 3 big names can entertain and inspire in equal measure etching on the record books something special to note for times to come.