Showing posts with label Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smith. Show all posts

Friday, May 21, 2010

Grame Smith happy with T20 series win

Grame Smith nets

Grame Smith happy with his teams performance especially after wrapping the T20 series against the West Indies for 2-0.Smith told this is the all important series for them especially they are preparing for the World Cup and making some vital changes and he cited the major change where Boucher has been dropped and AB de Villiers is asked to keep instead of him.

AB de Villiers has done a decent job so far and the run out that he affected in the penultimate ball of the match led to the downfall of West Indies and they lost the match by 1 run. This is one of the low scoring thrillers where South Africa manged just 120 runs in their 20 overs but West Indies managed one run less than them to lose the game and the series as well.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mark Boucher dropped from South Africa squad and AB de Villiers to keep

AB de Villiers wicketkeeping
AB de Villiers is the new keeper for South Africa. Smith told that it was very hard to drop Boucher especially his experienced will be missed. Boucher is a cool customer under pressure but South African selectors are trying some new thing ahead of the World Cup in 2011.

I personally feel Boucher should be in the team.AB de Villiers is one of the best fielders in the International cricket and moving him from that place is a bad option only for South Africa.Smith feels that this gives one or two extra options which can be tried out before the World Cup. So South Africa would be without the services of Boucher for the ongoing series against West Indies which consist of T20 and ODI's