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
happening match
As things are happening on this tour, we'll probably play a match or two without him.
best bit close finish hard hitting hurt mark matched pick playing positive step teams
The teams are matched up pretty well. If anything, we need to pick it up a step in our ruthlessness on the field. We need to finish things off. We may just get a bit tense, and that comes down to inexperience, playing the best team in the world. I think 1-0 down is disappointing, but it hasn't hurt us and in a lot of ways, I'm very positive about us. As captain, I feel we're very close to hitting the mark ...and we're going to come back hard in Sydney.
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Incredible. We'd struggle to repeat a match like that. I think it compares with the tied Test between Australia and the West Indies at Adelaide as one of the greatest matches in cricket history.
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.
gave hours match positive response situation surprised three
They only gave us one option, and we had no positive response in the match situation after their first innings. It surprised us when they batted on so long - it was two or three hours more than we thought they would.
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The last two matches have seen the whole team involved and it's nice to have a team where all the players contribute to winning the game.
players rest
The players really long for a rest of only 10 days.
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.
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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.
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I don't think he undermines his effectiveness but I think he puts him under a lot of pressure when it comes to decision making and maybe he doubts his own decisions sometimes because Shane is offering so much advice all the time. It's hard to sift through what is good and what is not good, at times.
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.