Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News World Cup Moments To Remember April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 Graeme Smith Adelaide, Auckland, Australia, Bangladesh, Brendon McCullum, Chittagong, Cricket World Cup, David Warner, England, Graeme Smith, Guyana, ICC, Kumar Sangakkara, Lasith Malinga, Mahmudullah, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Starc, New Zealand, Proteas, Scotland, Shane Watson, Sri Lanka, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Wahab Riaz In his latest blog for The Sports Eagle, former South Africa captain Graeme Smith selects his best 2015 ICC Cricket Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News It’s Going To Be A Special Final March 28, 2015March 28, 2015 Graeme Smith Australia, Brendon McCullum, Land of the Long White Cloud, MCG, Melbourne, Michael Clarke, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Steve Smith, Trent Boult, World Cup After just short of six weeks of competition, it all comes down to Sunday’s battle between the two host nations. I can’t Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Ultimately Black Caps Were Better Team March 25, 2015March 25, 2015 Graeme Smith All Blacks, Australia, Byron kelleher, England, George Gregan, Grant Elliott, Jimmy Neesham, New Zealand, Newlands, Proteas, South Africa, Steve Waugh, World Cup When it was clear that Australia were about to defeat New Zealand in the 2003 rugby union World Cup semi-final, Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Proteas Greatest Challenge March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 Graeme Smith Australia, Bangladesh, Black Caps, Boy Louw, Eden Park, Kyle Abbott, Latin, Martin Guptill, munus, New Zealand, Proteas, Rome, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Vernon Philander, World War II When one mentions the countries, South Africa and New Zealand, in the same sentence one automatically thinks of the great Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Proteas’ Performance Mirrored Their Belief March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 Graeme Smith AB De Villiers, Angelo Mathews, Auckland, Dale Steyn, Faf Du Plessis, Imran Tahir, JP Duminy, Kumar Sangakkara, Kyle Abbott, Lahiru Thirimanne, Mahlea Jayawardene, New Zealand, Proteas, Quinton De Kock, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies AB De Villiers came out in the pre-match press conference and assured South Africa that the Proteas would be up Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Pakistan Was Hungry And Aggressive March 8, 2015March 8, 2015 Graeme Smith Allan Border, Australia, Cricket World Cup, Eden Park, Ian Chappell, ICC, Imran Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan, Perth, Proteas, South Africa, Sri Lanka, WACA At the ICC Cricket World Cup 1992, Imran Khan stood at the pitch of the WACA at the toss of Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Windies Win Would Have Settled The Nerves March 1, 2015March 3, 2015 Graeme Smith Farhaan Behardien, Haris Sohail, India, Ireland UAE, MCG, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Irfan, Proteas, Rahat Ali, SCG, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, south African, Umar Akmal, Wahab Riaz, Wayne Parnell It has been a week of contrasting emotions for the Proteas as they mixed despair with brilliance. The lows of Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Proteas Must Bat Second To Beat India February 20, 2015February 20, 2015 Graeme Smith Adelaide, Ajinkya Rahane, Cricket World Cup, David Miller, Farhaan Behardien, Hove, ICC, India, JP Duminy, MCG, Melbourne, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma, MS Dhoni, Nagpur, Pakistan, Proteas, Ravichandran Aswhin, Ravindra jadeja, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, South Africa, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Wayne Parnell I will start this column by stating the facts: South Africa has never lost to India in an ICC Cricket Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News Making Peace With The Term “Chokers” January 26, 2015January 26, 2015 Graeme Smith Birmingham, choke, chokers, Cricket World Cup, Dhaka, Durban, ICC, Karachi, Proteas, St Lucia, Sydney The word ‘choke’ is a term that has various connotations and also found significance within the sporting world. The history Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News From Cinema To Cricket World Cup January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 Graeme Smith Boxing Day, Cricket World Cup, Eric Simons, Herschelle Gibbs, ICC, Jonty Rhodes, Omar Henry, Pakistan, South Africa, Western Province, Zimbabwe I always tried to ensure that communication in this regard be paramount during my captaincy tenure in future years. The Read more
Blogs Cricket Cricket World Cup Featured News The Challenge Of Selecting One Squad For Different Conditions January 8, 2015January 8, 2015 Graeme Smith Australia, Cricket World Cup, England, Farhaan Behardien, ICC, India, JP Duminy, New Zealand, Pakistan, Proteas, Quinton De Kock, Rilee Rossouw, Russell Domingo, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Wayne Parnell, West Indies It is difficult to pinpoint a player within the Proteas squad that I feel will definitely perform and be a Read more