Hashim Amla at a training session at the Adelaide Oval (Photo: Wikipedia)
Hashim Amla heads the list of nominees for the 2013 Cricket South Africa (CSA) professional awards to be announced at a banquet in Johannesburg on July 3.
The elegant Proteas batsman is one of five nominees for the main award – the South African Cricketer of the Year.
The other nominees are one-day international captain AB de Villiers, batsman Faf du Plessis and fast bowlers Vernon Philander and Dale Steyn.
Amla has also been nominated for the Sunfoil Test Cricketer of the Year award, the Momentum One-Day International Cricketer of the Year and the KFC So Good award.
The awards cover the period from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013.
It was one of the most successful years in South African cricket history, during which the national team became the undisputed number one team in Test cricket with away series wins against England and Australia and home series clean sweeps against New Zealand and Pakistan.
“This has been the most successful year in the history of South African Test match cricket,” commented CSA Acting CEO Naasei Appiah.
“The Castle Lager Test squad has become synonymous with sustained excellence and there have also been inspiring performances from many individual players, not to mention the leadership provided by our captain, Graeme Smith.
“This awards ceremony is our ‘Oscar Evening’ for South African professional cricket and I would like to congratulate all the nominees as well as the eventual winners.
“CSA is also very grateful to its eminent panel of judges for the time and dedication they have shown. With so many outstanding performances it could not have been easy for them to make their choices.”
Colin Bryden, convener of the judging panel, commented: “It was an outstanding year for South African cricket and there were many excellent individual performances, particularly in Test matches.
The biggest problem for the panel was deciding who to leave out of the final nominations. There were also some impressive performances in franchise cricket.”
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