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Century-makers Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis gave South Africa an imposing 233-run lead with seven wickets remaining on the third day of the first...

Alviro Petersen will open the batting for South Africa with captain Graeme Smith in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka starting at...

South Africa captain Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla led their country to a remarkable comeback victory against Australia when the hosts won the first...

South Africa Test captain Graeme Smith said Sunday the priority this season is to challenge India for first position in the world rankings. The Proteas,...

Struggling West Indies, who trail 0-3 in their five-match one-day series against Pakistan, have recalled batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan for the fourth ODI. Sarwan, 30,...

Will Smith and son Jaden have signed on to star in a new sci-fi film from director M Night Shyamalan, Columbia Pictures announced today. A synopsis from The Hollywood Reporter says that the film is set 1000 years into the future, and Jaden will play a boy who must find his way around an abandoned planet after his spaceship has crashed; like in real life, Will smith will take on the role of his father.
"The chance to make a scary, science-fiction film starring Jaden and Will is my

DHAKA - At the start of the World Cup South Africa captain Graeme Smith finally snapped when he was asked yet again about his team's reputation for choking in the big games. "So you have been out in the middle, you will understand that?," Smith replied. The room fell silent. After Friday's quarter-final loss to New Zealand, a fifth World Cup knockout defeat in as many matches, Smith was gloomily braced for an even more virulent wave of criticism.
"When the team gets onto the

DHAKA - South Africa skipper Graeme Smith admitted he was lost for words by his team's stunning 49-run defeat to New Zealand in the World Cup quarter-finals on Friday.
South Africa, who have never won the World Cup, crashed to 172 all out from a position of strength when they were 108-2 chasing a modest 222 to reach the semi-finals. But their inability to cope with intense pressure plagued them yet again to leave the Black Caps with a semi-final date against either Sri Lanka or

DHAKA - South African captain Graeme Smith does not expect another shock World Cup loss at Bangladesh's hands when the two sides meet in their last league match on Saturday. The Proteas' lone defeat in 13 one-day internationals against Bangladesh came during the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean when the Tigers secured a 67-run win on a turning track in Providence, Guyana. After Mohammad Ashraful scored 87 to lift Bangladesh to 251-8, South Africa were shot out for 184 with left-arm

MOHALI - West Indies staved off Ireland's spirited challenge for a 44-run win in a Group B match to inch closer to the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Friday. Ed Joyce (84) and Gary Wilson (61) fought bravely but Ireland could manage only 231 as they lost all their wickets in 49 overs to fall well short of West Indies' total of 275. Earlier, opener Devon Smith (107) struck his maiden century in one-day internationals but it was Kieron Pollard's stroke-filled 94 off 55 balls that

CHENNAI - South Africa captain Graeme Smith hit back at claims his side had 'choked' again at the World Cup after a dramatic six-run loss to England on Sunday. Defeat ended the Proteas' unbeaten start to the tournament and raised fresh questions about their nerve in tight games. Needing just 172 to win, they were cruising at 63 without loss. But they then lost three wickets for 19 runs and three more in the middle of their innings for no runs with the score on 124. "That's not

CHENNAI South African captain Graeme Smith said he expected to face a fired-up England following their humiliation by Ireland, when the Test rivals met in a World Cup match on Sunday. Andrew Strauss's team were victims of one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history when Ireland, inspired by Kevin O'Brien's record-breaking 50-ball century, chased down a 328-run winning target in Bangalore on Wednesday. It was a victory that threw the race for quarter-final places from Group B wide

CHENNAI - South African skipper Graeme Smith has criticised the wicket prepared for their World Cup warm-up game against Zimbabwe and called for better tracks during the tournament. The pitch caused worries to Smith despite his team cantering to an eight-wicket win in the day-night game at the Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Saturday. "I don't think it was a great wicket," Smith said afterwards.
"It probably suited them (spinners). The wicket probably helped them a little bit

ABU DHABI: South African captain Graeme Smith said he would like to end the tour with a clean sweep in all three formats of the game as they take on Pakistan in the second Test starting here from Saturday.
South Africa beat Pakistan in both the Twenty20 matches and took the five-match one-day series 3-2 on the tour shifted to United Arab Emirates because of security fears in Pakistan.
Pakistan escaped with a draw in the first Test in Dubai on Tuesday after Younis Khan

DUBAI: Graeme Smith struck a fighting century to put South Africa on track for a big total against a hapless Pakistan attack on the opening day of the first Test here on Friday.
Smith hit eight boundaries in his 152-ball 100 and shared a 153-run opening stand with Alviro Petersen (67) before Hashim Amla (80) built on the good work to help South Africa, who won the toss and batted, reached 311-3 at close.
Jacques Kallis, who shared a 117-run third wicket stand with Amla, was

DUBAI: Rival captains Misbah-ul-Haq and Graeme Smith geared up for a spin battle in the first Test starting here from Friday, as Pakistan seek their first series win in four years.
Pakistan's last Test series win was against the West Indies at home in 2006 and since then they have lost six and drawn the remaining three, but newly inducted captain Misbah hopes his team makes a fresh start at Test cricket's newest venue.
"We are focusing only on cricket and will play to our

DUBAI: South African skipper Graeme Smith and Pakistan team coach Waqar Younis both described the fourth one-day match between their two teams as having been exciting and good for 50-over form of cricket.
Pakistan pulled off a sensational one-wicket win on the penultimate delivery of the match after being set a challenging 275-run target on Friday, to level the five-match series at 2-2 and set an intriguing fifth match for Monday. Smith, whose 98 was the cornerstone for the South