A memory to cherish: the day that Hashim Amla defied Hampshire and added to his legend
03.03.26, 12:10 Updated 03.03.26, 12:31 4 Minute Read
Mark Church
Our beautiful game has always been about numbers. Number of runs, number of wickets, number of overs, number of deliveries. Numbers, numbers, and more numbers.
But the numbers do not always tell you the full story about what a team or individual achieves. And the numbers certainly did not tell the whole cricketing story about what happened on July 7, 2021.
On that day Surrey were involved in the final day of their County Championship game against Hampshire in Southampton, starting out that morning with the scoreboard reading six for two in their second innings. Even more worryingly, Surrey were following on and the small matter of 410 runs from just making Hampshire bat again.
Hashim Amla, who had top scored in Surrey’s first innings with 29, made his way to the middle with nightwatchman Amar Virdi and faced the opening delivery of the day.
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