graeme smith Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
graeme smith is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Graeme Craig Smith
Born
February 01, 1981, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Age
42 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 117 | 197 | 33 | 29 |
Inn | 205 | 194 | 33 | 29 |
Runs | 9265 | 6989 | 982 | 739 |
Avg | 47.76 | 37.78 | 31.68 | 28.42 |
SR | 59.68 | 80.82 | 127.53 | 110.63 |
HS | 277 | 141 | 89 | 91 |
NO | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
100s | 27 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 38 | 47 | 5 | 4 |
4s | 1165 | 789 | 123 | 94 |
6s | 24 | 44 | 26 | 9 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 117 | 197 | 33 | 29 |
Inn | 37 | 43 | 3 | - |
Balls | 1418 | 1026 | 24 | - |
Runs | 885 | 951 | 57 | - |
Wkt | 8 | 18 | 0 | - |
BBI | 145 / 2 | 30 / 3 | 16 / 0 | - |
BBM | 145 / 2 | 30 / 3 | 16 / 0 | - |
Eco | 3.74 | 5.56 | 14.25 | - |
Avg | 110.62 | 52.83 | 0.0 | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Africa XI
- Cape Cobras
- Gauteng
- Hampshire Cricket Board
- ICC World XI
- Pune Warriors
- Rajasthan Royals
- Somerset
- Surrey
- Western Province
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
The tour of England in 2003 made Smith's name. He made consecutive double hundreds and his 259 remains the highest score by a foreigner at Lord's. Smith finished the series with an aggregate of 714 runs at an average of 79.33, and ended up as the joint Man of the Series.
Smith's captaincy as well as his batting mirror his personality; strong, demonstrative and outwardly aggressive. As with all left handers, he is strong off the pads and will punish the loose ones on the off side with equal felicity. Though he may not look elegant as most lefties do, Smith is a relentless attacker and scores his runs quickly thereby giving his side the chance to bowl out most teams.
As a captain, he leads by example; a case in point being the Sydney test in 2009 when he came out to bat with a broken hand to save the game. He failed to do so, but won unanimous praise for his act of bravery. Often standing at 1st slip, chewing away on his gum, Smith is a brash and impulsive skipper who backs his team to the hilt. He is known to be an aggressive sledger too and has in return copped a fair amount from the Aussies early on when he was new to international cricket.
His crowning glory as captain came when he led his side to a famous test series win in Australia during the 2008-09 season and repeated the feat once again in the 2012-13 tour. In fact, 2012 would turn out to be his most successful year as a captain. Prior to the success against Australia, South Africa crushed the then World No.1 Test team, England to annex the mace themselves. Andrew Strauss, the then England skipper stepped aside and retired from all forms of the game. With his retirement, Smith achieved a rare feat of retiring three (Hussain, Vaughan and Strauss) England captains in three successive tours.
Smith became the most successful Test captain of all times when he led his team to a fine victory over Pakistan at Cape Town. This was his 49th Test win as a captain, going past Ricky Ponting, who achieved 48 wins for Australia.
Though he was unable to lead his side to any ICC silverware during his tenure, Smith was one of the most impressive men to have lead South Africa. His captaincy skills have been lauded and praised for the way he resurrected South African cricket after a turbulent phase.
Smith quit the ODI captaincy after his side crashed out of the quarterfinals during the ICC World Cup in 2011. He still remains the test captain though and has said that he wants to guide the next generation of youngsters as he prepares to leave behind a legacy. Smith played for the Rajasthan Royals under Shane Warne during the first three seasons of the IPL. His relationship with Warne changed as they discovered more about each other and became friends; where once Warne and Smith had a verbal war during the latter's early career.
Smith retired from international cricket, he took the decision on the third day of the third Test against Australia in March 2014. He forwarded the news to his team-mates on the very same day. The main reason was the lack of form as he scored only 45 runs in six innings that he played in the series. Smith also said that retirement was always on the back of his mind as he had a young family and wanted to spend more time with them. However, Smith had signed a contract with Surrey last year and will continue to play for them in the upcoming County Championship.
Interesting facts about Graeme Smith: Graeme Smith dated a swimsuit model, Minki van der Westhuizen in his early international days.
He is married to Irish singer Morgan Deane. Together they have two kids, one daughter named Candence and a son born recently named Carter.
Smith is on Twitter @GraemeSmith49. He is very active on the social network and is constantly in touch with his team-mates.
By Srivathsa and Akshay Maanay
As of April 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Meaty, muscular and mighty, Graeme Smith was a colossus as South Africa's captain, and not much less so in his contribution as a batter, in the first two decades of the 21st century.
Smith's leadership and batting were all about being direct and upfront. The subtleties of captaincy grew into his game, but he was generally most comfortable surging once more unto the breach himself with a cursory backward glance to see if his men were following. His batting was similarly forthright: anything bowled near his pads was sent screaming through midwicket. Anything drivable on the off side was driven, brutally, often inelegantly, but always effectively. Square of jaw and shoulder, they didn't call him "Biff" for nothing.
Smith was handed the reins at 22 - which made him his country's youngest captain - and tasked with rebuilding South Africans' faith in the integrity of game itself, which had been shattered by Hansie Cronje's greed and was not restored completely under Shaun Pollock's sincere but undemonstrative leadership. If Pollock was too maturely minded a captain for South African sensibilities, Smith was spot-on: an overgrown schoolyard bully of the nicest possible type, who would just as soon take a (verbal) swing at an opponent as buy him a beer.
The double-centuries he scored in his 11th and 12th Tests (just his third and fourth as captain), in England in 2003 made for an ironclad argument to retain his overtly direct approach to getting the job done.
Those were his early days in charge, but arguably his greatest triumph came much later, when he led South Africa to their first Test series victory in Australia, in 2008-09, memorably batting with a broken hand in Sydney. Under his leadership, South Africa became truly dominant tourists, winning eight away series and losing none between 2007 and 2013. They also went undefeated in 11 series overall between April 2006 and December 2008. He was also the first captain to lead in more than 100 Tests.
Through all his Test triumphs, though, Smith couldn't get his hands on a chunk of ICC silverware. He quit international cricket after a lean series with the bat at home against Australia in March 2014. He went on to serve as Cricket South Africa's director of cricket after retirement, and in 2022 was appointed commissioner of the SA20, South Africa's attempt at a top-tier T20 league.