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Graeme Smith Profile |
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Birth Date: February 1, 1981
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Birth Place: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Birth Name: Graeme Craig Smith
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Biography |
Graeme Smith is a South African cricketer, and the current
captain of the South African cricket team, having succeeded
Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
A tall, left-handed opening batsman, on the 2003 South
African tour of England he made double centuries in
consecutive Test matches: 277 at Edgbaston, and 259 at
Lord's. The 277 is the highest individual innings ever made
for South Africa, and the 259 is the highest score ever made
at Lord's by a foreign player.
Known for the success of his opening partnership with
Herschelle Gibbs, South Africa's most prolific ever opening
partnership, Smith has the distinction of having been part
of all four of South Africa's opening partnerships of over
300 runs: in three of them he was partnered by Gibbs, and in
2008 Smith added 415 for the first wicket with Neil McKenzie
against Bangladesh, a world record opening partnership. |
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since April 27, 2009