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
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.
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.
players rest
The players really long for a rest of only 10 days.
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,
backed batting chunk gone order ourselves top twice
We thought after having gone through their top order twice in Centurion and with the moisture in the wicket here, we backed ourselves to get a big chunk in their batting order.
difficult doubt tour
This tour was without doubt the most difficult one of my life.
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.
declaring felt given terms
We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series.
backed batting bowlers chunk created gamble hours paid three
We backed our bowlers to take a big chunk out of their batting order, and in the first two or three hours we created a lot of chances. But I would have to say the gamble hasn't paid off.