{"id":73370,"date":"2019-10-30T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73370"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:55:59","slug":"hashim-amla-signs-for-surrey-on-two-year-kolpak-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/hashim-amla-signs-for-surrey-on-two-year-kolpak-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashim Amla signs for Surrey on two-year Kolpak deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Surrey Cricket on Tuesday announced that former South Africa batsman Hashim Amla signed a two-year Kolpak contract with the club. Amla said that he is \u2018very excited\u2019 to be joining Surrey. \u201cSurrey is one of the most established and accomplished cricket clubs in the world and I am very excited to be joining them again while also not forgetting the opportunity to play alongside my good friend Morne Morkel again,\u201d said Amla in an official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be his third stint with the club after 14 appearances between 2013 and 2014. The 36-year-old retired from the international cricket on August 8 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was part of the Surrey team in 2013 and 2014 and thoroughly enjoyed myself during those stints. So to rekindle that relationship for a longer period is something that excites me. I\u2019m really looking forward to working with Alec Stewart and the rest of his team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith several of our players now in or around the international setup, the opportunity to bring Hashim back to Surrey was too good to ignore,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrey Cricket on Tuesday announced that former South Africa batsman Hashim Amla signed a two-year Kolpak contract with the club. Amla said that he is \u2018very excited\u2019 to be joining Surrey. \u201cSurrey is one of the most established and accomplished cricket clubs in the world and I am very excited to be joining them again [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73372,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73370\/revisions\/73372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}