smith has to go!!

Boucher will be a good captain, so will Jaques Kallis.

Smith is still a 'kortbroek :)' & needs to gain experience (most probably what Mienkie realised as well :)) - I can't believe they made him captain for starters. :eek:
 
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Omac said:
And then our esteemed capt. threw a temper tantrun like a 2 year old!!
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I noticed that as well, it was all quite juvenile throwing the ball down aggressively when he should have been celebrating with the team. :mad:
 
So apparently on the news this morning it was that Nel was not recommended to play but Lorgat wanted to replace Kemp with Pieterson. That's Smith was so worked up when Kemp made his hundred. If so, Lorgat should just stop intervening with selection 1 min before the toss.
 
Irrespective of who was right and wrong, I still think that the entire team needs a complete overhaul including the management, administration, captaincy and coaching. The only person who I feel really has made an observable difference is Rhodes as the fielding coach.
 
uhm not sure.. that article is confusing. I thought it said Smith wanted Nel to be in but Lorgat wanted Hall + Kemp ?
 
no apparently Nel was passed fit but shouldn't play so they recommended Hall. The other one was that Pieterson would replace Kemp. Lorgat wanted to do it like 2min before the toss and actually dragged Smith back to talk. That's Smith got so angry. He wanted Kemp to play and didn't feel Pieterson should. Lorgat insisted so Smith took off. Lorgat did that once a few years ago as well...can't remember who.
 
can this really be??

we have inform players actually fighting for posistions??

ohh my word .....IM A MONKEY'S UNCLE!!!!:eek:
 
Smith has negotiated first ball successfully..raises both hands..acknowledges raucous applause modestly..
 
well done smith
another DUCK

useless !@#(@#($)$#
then again, no surprise..
 
nivek said:
well done smith
another DUCK

useless !@#(@#($)$#
then again, no surprise..
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Denial is not just a river in Africa by Mike Haysman

Posted on 5 December 2006

Anyone with any semblance of intelligence, who is a legitimate student of the game, knows that Graeme Smith has a technique dilemma.
His footwork and balance are the bedrock of his predicament and symptomatically his head is often outside the line of the ball. What I am saying is nothing new and Graeme knows that. His modes of dismissal have been consistently familiar over the last two years and now is the time for reflection. Graeme also knows that.

There is a reason that, as soon as your hands are big enough to partially wrap around a bat handle and your pads come up to your waist as you stumble around trying to emulate your hero, your coach keeps drumming into your head to “play straight”.

That is the best advice you can get and it comes at a very early age.

Some players have a gift. No-one can deny that Smith has that, and his extraordinary success some three years ago when he first donned the skipper’s badge was astonishing. However, looking back, it may have been his greatest enemy. The cricketing world took notice of this young, brash, run machine.

The various strategists in all cricketing nations identified the Smith threat and viewed hours of Smith’s carnage and consequently plans were hatched. Bowl six inches outside off stump and get him to chase a delivery, or bowl straight and trap him LBW as he works the ball to leg. Smith in his very finest form would have no problem at all with either delivery but when all is not totally in sync, disappointment results.

For Graeme to comment last week that his run drought has nothing to do with his batting technique and that it is caused by psychological reasons is tantamount to turkeys voting for Xmas!

Any top sportsman knows that there is only one way to rectify technique issues. Get back to the drawing board and be self-analytical and honest with yourself. Smith knows that.

The game around Smith has evolved. Smith hasn’t.

Graeme is a workaholic. Few pound the kookaburra with the ferocity as the captain does when practicing. He needs to regularly feel leather on willow to satisfy his thirst for pursuing excellence.

It is extraordinary, considering the batting plight he finds himself in, that he has been ordered to rest from the SuperSport series. That is in complete contrast to Smith’s reasoning that he needs to bat more to rectify the state of affairs and regain self-assurance.

Smith knows that.
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http://www.supercricket.co.za/default.asp?id=5007&des=sportstalk

Haysman agrees with us. Smith is an idiot. He says so in the first line!
 
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