For some or other reason the above posting went awry and my comments was not updated, Amla was and remained one of the reasons the Proteas lost matches, His average strike rate was below 65 in the WC series and that means scoring at below 4,5 runs per over - way too low for ODI's and always representing match losses,
How the hell do you think his opening partner felt standing watching Amla fumbling around and then has to try and hit out in games at balls he should not have to purely to up the strike rate and then going out early?
Amla realized he was failing and retired form international cricket, He failed in the WC series and irrespective how you try to mangle things around - he was too poor and caused losses for SA, The Proteas would have lost the Aussie game too if Amla played and the reason they won that one was due to the fact that he did not play. Aside from his batting him dropping catcjes left, right and center also played a role in losses anyway.
No Mozart - everybody bar you realized he was a liability in the WC series abnd his selection was a joke in bad taste,