This is the second time Amla has claimed the title and joins Makhaya Ntini (2005 and 2006) and Jacques Kallis (2004 and 2011) as two-time winners.
According to Cricket South Africa’s website, Amla was nominated in five categories and won four of them, which included the Sunfoil Test Cricketer of the Year and SA Fans’ Cricketer of the Year. His historic treble century in The Oval Test against England won him the KFC So Good award. AB de Villiers picked up his second award as the SA Players’ Player of the Year and Dale Steyn won the title of KFC T20 International Player of the Year.
Kallis went home with the Ram Slam delivery of the year award by dismissing his old rival, Ricky Ponting of
Australia, in the second Test match at the Adelaide Oval.
Marizanne Kapp was awarded South African Women’s Cricketer of the Year and Kyle Abbott was named SA Newcomer of the Year.
Cricket SA’s CEO Haroon Lorgat said it had been another amazing year for the country’s top players.
“It is not easy to keep finding special words to speak about Hashim,” he said. “He has set SA record Test scores since unity against both England and Australia and he is the first player to score a Test treble century for our country. As if that is not remarkable enough he is also the number one rated player on the ICC rankings for Test and ODI players.”
In the domestic professional category the top awards went to Geoffrey Toyana for Coach of the Year, Kyle Abbott for Domestic Players’ Player of the Year, Johann Louw for Sunfoil Series cricketer of the season and Richard Levi for Momentum One-Day Cup cricketer of the season. Quinton de Kock won the Ram Slam cricketer of the season and the Khaya Majola Lifetime Achievement Award went to Hoosain Ayob for services to the game as player and coach.
