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
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Credit to England - they've played hard and grafted hard for five matches and probably deserved their series win.
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Coming out of the Test series, a lot of the guys who were here believed going back home we could beat them. We didn't take our chances. We had them under pressure on a number of cases in the Test series and just didn't drive it home.
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His foot flares up from time to time, and with the Test series just around the corner, we don't want to do anything to make his injury worse. His workload will increase in the Tests, so we are watching him carefully. He may be left out of the team for tomorrow's match.
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With the Cricket World Cup just more than a year away, South Africa hopes to use the series against Australia to iron out flaws and gear them up for the event.
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For the first time in a while, Australia is seeing a competitive series at home. Everyone has taken to it. Everyone is lifting their game. There's always a lot of heat on the ground. There's always going to be tense moments and maybe heated moments, but I think that's what people would rather watch than a tame game.
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I'm sure those performances are just around the corner.
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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.
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It's something we're pretty well prepared for now after coming off the back of the recent battles against Australia. We're tougher for the experience, we're mentally harder now and I think that will be advantageous for us if there is any silly stuff.
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Everyone in the whole team wanted to be positive this morning and go for a win. Cricket itself needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games.
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Not only did it seam, it was quite two-paced, which made it difficult to score freely.
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It's nice to win a tight game against Australia and it's a massive evening for all of us. We have got to come back down to earth.
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I'm feeling a little bit more relaxed now and a little bit happier.
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It was not easy to bat. But there were too many loose shots by our guys. We have just got to play better cricket.
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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.