Graeme Smith
Graeme Smith
Graeme Craig Smithis a former South African cricketer and former captain of the South African cricket team Test side, having succeeded Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup. He was succeeded as captain of the ODI side by AB de Villiers after the 2011 Cricket World Cup. He is also currently the overseas player and captain of English side Surrey. He appeared in his 100th Test against England on 19 July 2012. He captained his 100th career Test match...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth1 February 1981
great skills
We all know the skills that Polly brings, and it will be great to have him back.
accept cannot people pressure team winning
There is a lot of pressure on them. They have been an established team winning everything for so long that people cannot accept that things are not going so well any longer.
best performance team
This was probably the best team performance in one-day internationals under my captaincy,
australia credit cricket days nine test took win
What's disappointing is that we had opportunities to win the game. But their batsmen made the most of their opportunities and credit to them. It took nine days of Test cricket for someone to really win a day. And that was yesterday, which Australia won.
win
What's disappointing is that we had opportunities to win the game.
credit deserved england five hard matches played series
Credit to England - they've played hard and grafted hard for five matches and probably deserved their series win.
difference game lost throughout
Yes, we've lost but we've said throughout the game that the difference between 1-0 and 2-0 for us is nothing. It's still a lost series.
today
Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise.
certainly few games last moving
You can never take him for granted. Certainly we've had the better of him in the last few games and moving on to Durban it's going to be another challenge.
both guys hundred innings mike momentum took
Both guys we put down in the first innings went on to make hundreds. We really had the momentum and Mike Hussey's hundred at the back (of the first innings) took it away from us.
capable knew looked win
We always knew we were capable of this. We have looked to become more aggressive, and that's the way we will need to be if we want to win the World Cup.
happening match
As things are happening on this tour, we'll probably play a match or two without him.
believe certain fair
To be fair everyone can see we haven't had certain things go our way but I also believe that you make your own luck.
lost ourselves pick
We're disappointed we lost but we're going to have to pick ourselves up again.