Graeme Smith

On this day, Graeme Smith became first South African to hit double ton at Lord's

Smith finished his cricket career in 2014 with a total of 9,265 runs in 117 Tests, 6,989 runs in 197 ODIs and 982 runs in 33 T20Is.

Aug 02, 2020, 17:35 PM IST

South Africa's tours of Sri Lanka, West Indies postponed indefinitely

South Africa were originally slated to play two-match Test series and five T20Is against West Indies in July-August and three ODIs and as many T20Is against Sri Lanka in June. 

Aug 01, 2020, 20:00 PM IST

Quinton de Kock won't be South Africa's Test captain, confirms Graeme Smith

De Kock was handed South Africa's white-ball captaincy in January and succeeded Faf du Plessis, who also stood down from the Test captaincy last year but remains available as a player.

Apr 17, 2020, 18:12 PM IST

Graeme Smith named South Africa’s director of cricket

Smith has appeared in a total of 117 Tests, 197 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and 33 Twenty20Is for South Africa before retiring from the game. 

Apr 17, 2020, 15:15 PM IST

Jacques Kallis roped in as South Africa's batting consultant

Former cricketer Jacques Kallis has been roped in as the batting consultant of the South Africa men's cricket team for the upcoming summer, the country's cricket board has confirmed, 

Dec 18, 2019, 19:44 PM IST

Mark Boucher appointed as South Africa's new head coach

Boucher will begin his first assignment as South Africa head coach during England’s tour to South Africa, comprising four Test matches, three ODIs and as many T20Is from Boxing Day.

Dec 14, 2019, 20:01 PM IST

Graeme Smith appointed CSA's interim director of cricket

CSA acting CEO Jacques Faul said on Wednesday that Smith will remain in the role till the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year.

Dec 11, 2019, 22:29 PM IST

Graeme Smith set to be named South Africa's Director of Cricket

Former South African skipper Graeme Smith is all set to become Cricket South Africa's (CSA) new Director of Cricket (DOC), the board's president Chris Nenzani has said. 

Dec 08, 2019, 16:00 PM IST

Rahmat Shah becomes 1st Afghanistan player to score Test century

Rahmat had previously scored 98 in Afghanistan's last Test against Ireland in Dehradun.

Sep 05, 2019, 16:16 PM IST

India vs West Indies: Virat Kohli eyes Ricky Ponting's elite Test record

Kohli has struck 18 Test centuries as the skipper of Team India and needs just one more century to equal Australia's Ricky Ponting's tally of 19 Test tons as a skipper.

Aug 21, 2019, 11:12 AM IST

ICC missed chance to lead over ball-tampering scandal: Graeme Smith

  Former South African captain Graeme Smith has hit out at the International Cricket Council, saying the sport's governing body missed a chance to show leadership over the Australian ball-tampering controversy.

Mar 26, 2018, 23:20 PM IST

Graeme Smith not happy with Aiden Markram captaincy decision

Former Proteas captain Graeme Smith doesn't approve of Cricket South Africa's decision of appointing Aiden Markram as captain for the six-game ODI series after regular captain Faf du Plessis was ruled out on account of injury.

Feb 20, 2018, 14:33 PM IST

Graeme Smith questions Virat Kohli's captaincy credentials

Every day brings in some sort of criticism for India captain Virat Kohli. Now it's former South Africa captain Graeme Smith's turn to take a dig at him, especially his captaincy credentials.

Jan 23, 2018, 15:10 PM IST

Shahid Afridi and Graeme Smith join former stars for St. Moritz Ice Cricket in Switzerland

Players will use the traditional cricketing gear including the red-ball but will wear sports shoes instead of spikes. The weather is expected to be nice and sunny during the day but the temperatures can dip to as low as -20 degree celsius.

Dec 25, 2017, 15:53 PM IST

India's tour of South Africa: Graeme Smith picks three key batsmen for Men in Blue

India will play a full series in South Africa, comprising of three Tests, six ODIs and three T20Is. the first Test match starts on January 5 in Cape Town.

Dec 18, 2017, 17:30 PM IST

Virender Sehwag, Shoaib Akhtar to resume their rivalry on ice

Sehwag is not new to playing exhibition games outside India. He played the MCL in Dubai and was also part of Cricket.

Nov 22, 2017, 19:59 PM IST

Virat Kohli now only behind Ricky Ponting and Graeme Smith in this captaincy record

Virat Kohli's 32nd ODI century in the series-decider against New Zealand in Kanpur was his 20th international hundred as captain, which now puts him at No. 3 behind South Africa's Graeme Smith (33) and Australia's Ricky Ponting (41) in the list. 

Oct 30, 2017, 10:44 AM IST

South African conditions will be real test for 'inspirational' Virat Kohli: Graeme Smith

Smith also reflected on AB de Villiers' decision to step down as captain, while also backing Faf du Plesis to be the leader in all three formats.

Aug 28, 2017, 16:39 PM IST

Graeme Smith roped in as one of the coaches for South Africa's Twenty20 Global League

It will be the first senior-level coaching post for the 36-year-old since he retired from international cricket three years ago.

Aug 23, 2017, 10:54 AM IST

Champions Trophy: Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting to be part of commentary team for prestigious event

Shane Warne, Michael Slater, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Shaun Pollock, Sanjay Manjrekar, Ian Bishop, Ramiz Raja, Simon Doull and Athar Ali Khan complete the list.

Apr 18, 2017, 16:08 PM IST