Tough Smith a blood-and-guts warrior
Robert Craddock writes in the Sunday Telegraph that Graeme Smith, who scored 108 in South Africa’s second innings in Perth, is as tough as a half-chewed piece of biltong.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Robert Craddock writes in the Sunday Telegraph that Graeme Smith, who scored 108 in South Africa’s second innings in Perth, is as tough as a half-chewed piece of biltong.
In an international cricket world stocked with dud teams and over-rated players, it is a joy to witness an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts warrior like Graeme Smith. You don't have to love Smith, but it is impossible not to admire him ...
From the time he took to the crease, earnestly chewing gum and sweating profusely as he always does, he had the look of a man taking it upon himself to shepherd his side towards a total history suggested was nigh on impossible.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo