South Africa batter Hashim Amla has announced his status from cricket astatine the property of 39.
Amla scored 18,672 runs crossed each formats for the Proteas betwixt 2004 and 2019, and is their all-time apical Test run-scorer with 9,282 runs.
The right-hander is the fastest subordinate to deed 10 one-day planetary centuries and scope 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 and 7,000 ODI runs.
He was portion of the Surrey squad that won the County Championship successful 2022.
Amla besides has South Africa's highest people successful Test cricket with 311 not retired against England astatine The Oval successful 2012.
Former England skipper Alec Stewart, who has worked with Amla astatine Surrey, described the South African arsenic a "true nonrecreational and a large of the game".
Stewart said: "Everyone astatine Surrey County Cricket Club volition beryllium bittersweet to spot Hashim retire, but we each applaud what has been a phenomenal career.
"Hashim is simply a fantastic cricketer and a fantastic person. He has been an unthinkable assets for the squad to larn from connected and disconnected the field."