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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I think Melbourne was good for us in that we won very convincingly and probably gave South Africa a few other things to think about.
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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.
areas ball both
He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.
pressure test
If anything, they (Australia) have been under more pressure than us going into this test match.
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The whole game could have been different. Those were key moments. If we'd held onto our chances, we might have had a lead of 100.
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Definitely. We're not disappointed with the fact that we got bowled out in the last innings, the disappointing thing for us is that we had opportunities but didn't take them. We always knew that batting last against the two spinners would be difficult but it was in the middle of the game that we lost it.
abuse bit cop expected guys needed pushing upset
Our guys are pretty upset about it, something needed to be done. We expected to cop a bit of abuse but this was pushing the limits.
looking seems
It seems that Kepler is looking for a fight.
guess last sitting
I guess sitting here right now we've had the last laugh.
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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.
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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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Ricky seems to be more of a nice team environment, with everyone contributing. Everyone is going to do it their way. Ricky is trying too hard to find his own way of captaining.
players rest
The players really long for a rest of only 10 days.
definitely good needed top
We needed one good partnership in our top five. It was a definitely gettable total. Polly and AB showed what was needed.