Once upon a time, Amla would have been the player required to leave his homeland

Once upon a time, Amla would have been the player required to leave his homeland to realise his potential and live out his dreams. It would have been the destiny of Pietersen, with his expensive Pietermaritzburg education and his apparently inviolable sense of self-certainty, to wear the national cap

B. Carpenter, 'South African Time', L. Booth (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' (2013), 116