Graeme Smith Team Quotations

Ricky seems to be more of a nice team environment, with everyone contributing. Everyone is going to do it their way. Ricky is trying too hard to find his own way of captaining.

I think that they were the team that were choking, if that's the word, under pressure a little bit at the back end.

I think it's great to have a character, I certainly love having characters in my team and Nelly is certainly one of them.

The whole team wanted to be positive and wanted to go for a win. Cricket needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. For us, as a team moving forward, we're young and we need to be positive. To set a declaration and to try to go for a win was in our minds the only way to play. The negative option never came in.

There is a lot of pressure on them. They have been an established team winning everything for so long that people cannot accept that things are not going so well any longer.

It won't be 'this is the only chance you're ever going to get', it will be a run (of games) and hopefully he can take the opportunity and can produce something. As a South African team I believe we need to take a few more risks with certain selections going forward.

His foot flares up from time to time, and with the Test series just around the corner, we don't want to do anything to make his injury worse. His workload will increase in the Tests, so we are watching him carefully. He may be left out of the team for tomorrow's match.

I look at it differently. You can't just build a team overnight.

The conclusion that we have come to as a team is that it bothers Warne tremendously that he is not the Australian captain.

Everyone in the whole team wanted to be positive this morning and go for a win. Cricket itself needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games.

As a team we've got to take more risks and he's (Botha) a guy who wants to bowl in tough situations.

This was probably the best team performance in one-day internationals under my captaincy,

The last two matches have seen the whole team involved and it's nice to have a team where all the players contribute to winning the game.