South 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 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.
Root, with 1,680 runs, moved ahead of Smith, who had scored 1,656 runs as the captain of the Proteas in 2008.
The 11 South Africans, who participated in the league, have already left for Johannesburg.
A 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
CSA 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.
Tsolekile, 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.
Smith 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.
The 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.
The players and staff will take the knee in support of the Black lives Matter movement.
Smith and Sangakkara picked Ganguly over Dhoni when it comes to Test cricket but both agreed that Dhoni is the man in white-ball formats.
Graeme Smith heaped praise on Ganguly and revealed what it was like to poke the former India captain.
Former India captains Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly celebrated their birthdays earlier this week. Smith also spoke about BCCI President Ganguly.
Lungi Ngidi has recently made it clear that he will be supporting the movement, just like the West Indies and England cricketers, who are wearing the BLM logo on the collar of their shirts in the ongoing Test series and have also paid the 'One Knee' tribute.
Former skipper Smith, who is now CSA's director of cricket, on Thursday supported Ganguly for the ICC top job, saying a "cricket man" like the ex-India captain would be ideal to lead the apex body at this juncture.
Smith feels the game of cricket will need a strong leader in the post-COVID-19 era. He emphasized that someone like Ganguly who has played the game at the highest level will be an ideal man for the job.
England's pace duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad named the one batsman who was an 'absolute nightmare' to bowl to.
Dozens of South African cricketers have signed lucrative contracts with county cricket sides over the years but this automatically disqualifies them from playing for the national team.
Smith's statement came despite South Africa not having a clear candidate for the post.
Earlier, Smith was appointed on an interim basis in mid-December (2019) till the end of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
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