Outstanding Smith deserves his success (0)
- 2 Aug 08, 08:15 PM
Saturday's play at Edgbaston featured one of the finest examples of a captain leading from the front that you will see in Test cricket.
To score an unbeaten 154 batting last on this wearing surface was a superb achievement - not least because Graeme Smith was close to withdrawing from the Test with a bad back!
Curiously, he survived what was only a polite enquiry on 85 for caught behind off Monty Panesar which replays showed had flicked his glove. It was not an easy decision for Umpire Aleem Dar because the glove and pad were so close together and the fact that Panesar did not give one of his pogo stick appeals probably swayed his mind.
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