{"id":12654,"date":"2012-07-23T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/cricket-amla-puts-team-before-personal-goals\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:17:16","slug":"cricket-amla-puts-team-before-personal-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-amla-puts-team-before-personal-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Amla puts team before personal goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Sydenham<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, July 22<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Hashim Amla emphasised his team<br \/>\ncame before personal goals on Sunday when he said he was more<br \/>\npleased to have put South Africa in a position to win the first<br \/>\ntest against England than to score a record 311 not out.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amla bettered the previous best score by a South African,<br \/>\n278 by team mate AB de Villiers, and became only the sixth<br \/>\nperson to score a test triple hundred in England following Don<br \/>\nBradman, Leonard Hutton, John Edrich, Bobby Simpson and Graham<br \/>\nGooch.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;I didn&#8217;t dream about getting 300, although you would love<br \/>\nto,&#8221; Amla told reporters at the end of the fourth day. &#8220;\u201cI&#8217;ve<br \/>\nalways been a person who never sets goals and I think that<br \/>\nhelps, because you can keep going and going without being<br \/>\nlimited by having set something up.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cWith my scoring rate, 300 is usually a very long way off<br \/>\nso it only really crossed my mind when I got to 250. I was<br \/>\ninvolved in the game when AB got 278, so I was aware of it, but<br \/>\nif I had got out before that, so be it. I&#8217;m a firm believer you<br \/>\nhave just got to keep batting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amla, 29, is a devout Muslim and although it is the holy<br \/>\nmonth of Ramadan, he said he will observe the fast when he<br \/>\nreturns home to Durban. For now, he is just enjoying the moment<br \/>\nand was also heartened that fellow South African Ernie Els won<br \/>\nthe British Open at Royal Lytham.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cI&#8217;m just really grateful that I managed to get the highest<br \/>\nscore by a South African, but what is perhaps more pleasing is<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m the first guy to get 300 &#8211; records will be broken,<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no doubt about that, so that comes and goes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;But I think the biggest pleasure is that the team is in a<br \/>\nreally dominant position to win this test match. I think that&#8217;s<br \/>\nthe biggest joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by John Mehaffey)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Sydenham LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Hashim Amla emphasised his team came before personal goals on Sunday when he said he was more pleased to have put South Africa in a position to win the first test against England than to score a record 311 not out. 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