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Amla will join the team from 25 November after his stint in the Abu Dhabi T10 League, where he will appear as captain of the Karnataka Tuskers.
It will be his third stint with the club after 14 appearances across 2013 and 2014.
In an international career that was spread over 15 years, Amla played 349 matches across the three formats for the Proteas, making more than 18,000 runs, including 55 centuries and 88 other scores in excess of 50.
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Hashim Amla also registered a milestone, scoring a pedestrian 55 off 83 and became the fourth South African to register 8,000 ODI runs after Jacques Kallis, Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers before him.
It took 28.4 overs for Quinton de Kock (68 off 72 balls), Hashim Amla (41 not-out off 83 balls) and Andile Phehlukwayo (17 not-out off 17 balls) to reach their score of 131/1.
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Two half-century stands in South Africa's two World Cup warm-up games seems to have put to bed any questions around Hashim Amla's place in the side.
South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 87 runs in a World Cup warm-up game in Cardiff.
Both Kagiso Rabada and Dale Steyn returned home after picking up injuries during the recent Indian Premier League.
Faf du Plessis will captain the team that includes several players who will experience their first ever World Cup tournament.
Hashim Amla has been in dismal form in recent months, averaging just under 20 in the ongoing CSA T20 Challenge, while Aiden Markram’s average in the Momentum One Day Cup exceeded 100.
In 2015, Vernon Philander’s last-minute selection into the national team while he was injured was used to blame the World Cup loss.
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Cape Cobras coach Ashwell Prince confirmed that Proteas batsman Hashim Amla will be available for at least the opening matches of the CSA T20 Challenge which gets underway this weekend.
Aiden Markram and Hashim Amla got the Proteas to 123/2 at the end of play, underlining a dominant performance for the hosts.
Proteas captain Faf du Plessis acknowledged that Amla, 35, had slipped from his previous high standards, scoring only 444 runs at an average of 23.36 since his last century, against Bangladesh in October 2017.
The bowling strength of both teams is formidable, despite the lack of what had been anticipated as an intriguing match-up of exceptionally accurate seamers between South Africa's Vernon Philander and Pakistan's rising star Mohammad Abbas.