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.
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What's disappointing is that we had opportunities to win the game.
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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.
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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.
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It's up to the selectors but we've got to go with guys who will give us the best chance of winning the game.
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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.
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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.
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We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.
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We want to keep the momentum we picked up with that win over Australia.
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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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The guys will obviously celebrate a bit tonight because it's important to enjoy winning but we are not going to get carried away, it's still very early in the series.
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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.
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We might have to have a few more boys coming over and the news isn't too good with Jacques.
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We had the ability to bat all day, but credit to Chaminda (Vaas) for showing some of our fast bowlers how to come and do it on these kind of pitches,