Hashim Amla is still not a certainty in the South African playing XI but the senior opener has made a case for himself with successive fifties in the warm-up games ahead of World Cup opener against India in Southampton on June 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amla, one of South Africa\u2019s greatest Test match players, scored 65 and 51 not out respectively in the two warm-up games against Sri Lanka and West Indies and will be keen to add to his tally of 27 ODI hundreds.However with young Aiden Markram in the side, there is competition as to who would open with Quinton de Kock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The veteran opener wants to make every opportunity count and that was the reason he opted out of a domestic T20 competition\u2019s knock-out rounds to prepare for the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cScoring runs is always important. Whether I make the playing XI or not is not up to me. I do what I can do and what happens after that is for the benefit of the team,\u201d Amla was quoted as saying by the ICC website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cT20 is different to fifty-over cricket. I had two weeks with Dale Benkenstein and spent time in the nets batting the way a fifty-over cricketer would bat It was important to have that time. Sometimes it works out; sometimes it doesn\u2019t,\u201d said Amla, who needs another 90 to reach 8000 runs in ODIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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