Graeme Smith
-
Captains with best win percentage in T20I cricket
Sports | Mar 09, 2026, 02:35 PM ISTWith Suryakumar Yadav having led the Indian team to their third T20 World Cup title, let us have a look at the top five skippers in history with the highest win percentage for their side as the T20I skipper of the national team.
-
Graeme Smith talks about India's contribution in helping South Africa grow as cricketing nation
Cricket | Nov 19, 2025, 05:25 PM ISTSA20 India Day in Mumbai highlighted the league’s growing ties with India, with Commissioner Graeme Smith outlining SA20’s rapid rise, strong fan engagement and talent growth while emphasising its vision, branding and parallels with the early years of the IPL.
-
'Will continue to work with BCCI on this': Graeme Smith on having more Indian players in SA20
Cricket | Nov 17, 2025, 10:53 PM ISTFormer India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik became the first and only Indian player earlier this year to feature so far in the SA20, South Africa's own homegrown T20 tournament. Graeme Smith, the league commissioner, acknowledged that he would love to see more Indian players in the competition.
-
Graeme Smith wants more Indian players in SA20, speaks of working closely with BCCI
Cricket | Nov 14, 2025, 01:26 AM ISTSA20 commissioner Graeme Smith hopes to include more Indian players in future editions of the league, while confirming that the 2025–26 season will run from December 26 to January 25, replacing South Africa’s traditional Boxing Day Test window.
-
Graeme Smith, Faf du Plessis offer key advice to South Africa players ahead of India tour
Cricket | Nov 12, 2025, 10:04 PM ISTFormer South Africa captains Graeme Smith and Faf du Plessis have urged the Proteas batters to start strong in the upcoming Test series against India, stressing that early momentum and top-order stability will be key to competing in challenging subcontinent conditions.
-
Yashasvi Jaiswal vs Graeme Smith - Statistical comparison after 26 Tests
Sports | Oct 15, 2025, 02:04 PM ISTIndian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has made a terrific start to his Test career, having scored nearly 2,500 runs after playing 26 Tests. As Jaiswal goes forward in his career, his stats and numbers are mirroring another southpaw, the legendary South African, Graeme Smith. Take a look-
-
'We want to be the biggest league outside IPL': Graeme Smith says for SA20, remains unfazed from BBL
Cricket | Aug 18, 2025, 10:04 PM ISTThe SA20 is gearing up for its fourth season with the auction on September 9. The tournament will kick off on December 26 as South African fans wait in anticipation. Meanwhile, SA20's commissioner, Graeme Smith, wants the league to become the second biggest outside the IPL.
-
Cricketers who played despite being injured
Sports | Jul 25, 2025, 12:37 PM ISTWith Rishabh Pant coming out to bat with a broken toe against England in the fourth Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025, let us have a look at five such instances of cricketers continuing to play despite being injured in games.
-
Graeme Smith feels South Africa will end ICC Trophy wait with Champions Trophy, WTC Final in line
Cricket | Feb 11, 2025, 07:19 PM ISTSouth Africa will face Australia in the final of the World Test Championship in June and are also gearing up for the Champions Trophy 2025. Former Proteas skipper Graeme Smith feels South Africa will end their ICC Trophy drought this year.
-
Former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith cleared of racism allegations
Cricket | Apr 25, 2022, 11:50 AM ISTFormer Cricket South Africa (CSA) Director of Cricket and captain Graeme Smith has been cleared of racism allegations against him following the outcome of the board's Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) commission's report.
-
Ashes 2021-2022: Joe Root surpasses Graeme Smith's record of Test runs in a calendar year
Cricket | Dec 26, 2021, 06:03 PM ISTRoot, with 1,680 runs, moved ahead of Smith, who had scored 1,656 runs as the captain of the Proteas in 2008.
-
Our players felt secure in IPL's bio-bubble: CSA Director of Cricket Graeme Smith
Cricket | May 07, 2021, 10:27 AM ISTThe 11 South Africans, who participated in the league, have already left for Johannesburg.
-
It is in players' hands to make a choice: Graeme Smith on South Africans willing to exit IPL 2021
Cricket | May 04, 2021, 12:06 AM ISTA COVID-19 outbreak left the star-sprinkled IPL on tenterhooks as Kolkata Knight Riders' Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier tested positive for the dreaded virus, forcing postponement of their game against Royal
-
Graeme Smith hoping for limited crowd to return during Australia's Test tour of South Africa
Cricket | Nov 23, 2020, 10:38 AM ISTCSA is yet to finalise the full schedule of Australia's Test tour scheduled for February-March next year but Smith said the Newlands, where the sandpapergate scandal took place in 2018, will definitely host a match.
-
Allegations extremely hurtful, was never in charge of team selections: Graeme Smith tells Tsolekile
Cricket | Aug 13, 2020, 11:30 PM ISTTsolekile, who was banned for 12 years after being implicated for fixing matches in 2015, criticised Smith for not backing him enough during their time as international cricketers and alleged that CSA was trying to protect other wrongdoers.
-
Internal agendas within Cricket South Africa a "cancer": Graeme Smith
Cricket | Aug 02, 2020, 12:41 PM ISTSmith hinted that actions of a few people at senior positions have brought disrepute to the organisation and said media "leaks" have contributed to the current internal problems.
-
South Africa's tour of Windies postponed indefinitely with IPL 2020 fitted in, says Graeme Smith
Cricket | Aug 01, 2020, 07:21 PM ISTThe series was initially set to be held in the Caribbean Islands between July 23 and August 16 and would have involved two Tests and five T20Is.
-
'Proud to support this movement': Graeme Smith, cricketers to take the knee ahead of 3TCricket match
Cricket | Jul 18, 2020, 11:08 AM ISTThe players and staff will take the knee in support of the Black lives Matter movement.
-
Sangakkara, Smith pick Ganguly as best Indian Test captain, Dhoni for white-ball formats
Cricket | Jul 14, 2020, 05:35 PM ISTSmith and Sangakkara picked Ganguly over Dhoni when it comes to Test cricket but both agreed that Dhoni is the man in white-ball formats.
-
It showed how much India winning meant to him: Graeme Smith on Sourav Ganguly's Lord's celebration
Cricket | Jul 13, 2020, 10:50 AM ISTGraeme Smith heaped praise on Ganguly and revealed what it was like to poke the former India captain.