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
bowl guy risks team tough wants
As a team we've got to take more risks and he's (Botha) a guy who wants to bowl in tough situations.
boys confident feet firmly
The boys are confident but the feet are still firmly on the ground.
african australia daunting prospect scary south
Australia has always been a scary and daunting prospect for South African teams.
interest learn though together work
That's why I say we can learn a lot from the Aussies about how they all work together in the interest of their cricket, even though we don't always like what they're saying.
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.
closer drawing final india matter ourselves reach target tired tours
No matter how tired we are after the tours to India and now here we have to find a way of drawing ourselves closer for the final 10 days. It is our target to reach the final and to win it.
against bit confidence game gives good next win
It was a good win for us at the end of the day. It gives us a bit of confidence going into the next game against Australia.
african believe certain chance few hopefully opportunity produce risks run south team
It won't be 'this is the only chance you're ever going to get', it will be a run (of games) and hopefully he can take the opportunity and can produce something. As a South African team I believe we need to take a few more risks with certain selections going forward.
ask happened ricky
It was something that happened on the field. I think you had better ask Ricky about that.
bowlers good job post rest steadily total win
It was a really good win for us. We batted steadily enough to post a good total and then Brett and the rest of the bowlers did a good job for us.
australia beat capable confidence game good great guys leading opportunity side
It's a great opportunity for us to have a real good look at your guys and it will give us confidence if we can win. We must beat Australia at their game and I know I'm capable of leading the side to victory.
exploit great
It would be great if we could exploit that.
It would pretty much look like he's going home.
batting came cricket drawing minds moving needs negative option positive team teams
The whole team wanted to be positive and wanted to go for a win. Cricket needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. For us, as a team moving forward, we're young and we need to be positive. To set a declaration and to try to go for a win was in our minds the only way to play. The negative option never came in.