{"id":325,"date":"2008-03-29T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:56:59","slug":"graeme-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/players\/south-africa\/graeme-smith.html","title":{"rendered":"Graeme Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/graeme-smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"163\" \/><strong>Name:<\/strong> Graeme Craig Smith<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> South Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth:<\/strong> February 1, 1981<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place of Birth:<\/strong> Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batting Style:<\/strong> Left Handed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bowling Style:<\/strong> Right arm medium<\/p>\n<p><strong>ODI Debut:<\/strong> March 30, 2002 v Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Debut:<\/strong> March 8, 2002 v Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>T20 Debut:<\/strong> October 21, 2005 v New Zealand<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TESTs<\/li>\n<li>ODIs<\/li>\n<li>T20s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The youngest South-African skipper ever, Graeme Smith took over the captaincy from Pollock after a disastrous 2003 World Cup campaign. A strong-built, aggressive attitude, the Proteas skipper holds a commanding place in the side. He has done a fair job of leading the side so far.<\/p>\n<p>While he is batting, Smith likes to take the proactive role by dominating the opposition bowler. The southpaw has shown the hunger for big scores with many scintillating knocks.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>TESTs BATTING vs ALL TEAMS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<table class=\"bluetable\" border=\"0\" width=\"566\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>M<\/th>\n<th>Inn<\/th>\n<th>No<\/th>\n<th>Runs<\/th>\n<th>HS<\/th>\n<th>100s<\/th>\n<th>50s<\/th>\n<th>Avg<\/th>\n<th>SR<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cb\">63<\/td>\n<td>111<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>5146<\/td>\n<td>277<\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>48.55<\/td>\n<td>62.39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>TESTs BOWLING vs ALL TEAMS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<table class=\"bluetable\" border=\"0\" width=\"567\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>M<\/th>\n<th>Overs<\/th>\n<th>Runs<\/th>\n<th>Mdns<\/th>\n<th>Wkts<\/th>\n<th>Avg<\/th>\n<th>Best<\/th>\n<th>Econ<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cb\">63<\/td>\n<td>219<\/td>\n<td>801<\/td>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>100.13<\/td>\n<td>2\/145<\/td>\n<td>3.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Graeme Craig Smith Country: South Africa Date of Birth: February 1, 1981 Place of Birth: Johannesburg Batting Style: Left Handed Bowling Style:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cricketnirvana","author_link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/author\/cricketnirvana\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":10,"name":"Players","slug":"players","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":10,"category_count":87,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Players","category_nicename":"players","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":10,"label":"Players"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}