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Graeme Smith.
Biff.
Smith holds the world record of captaining in most test matches (102 – 101 as captain for South Africa, and 1 for ICC).
Smith holds the world record of highest number of wins in test matches as a captain with 50 wins.
Smith holds the most number of centuries (15) by a captain in test match wins.
He also holds the world record of a non-wicketkeeper taking most catches (82) in test match wins.
Fastest South African cricketer to reach 1000 test runs.
First player in ODI history to hit six fours off an over.
Smith led South Africa to victory over Australia in a One Day International at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, on 12 March 2006. Australia set South Africa a world record 434–4 from 50 overs, which was successfully chased by South Africa who reached 438–9 with a ball to spare. Smith scored 90 runs off 55 balls in the chase, and shared in a second wicket partnership of 187 runs with Herschelle Gibbs. The result gave South Africa in a 3–2 series victory over the Australians.
South Africa win the greatest match of all
As captain he led the South African cricket team through 20 consecutive undefeated matches in One Day Internationals in 2005.
In the 2007 World Cup he started the tournament with four successive 50s, a feat never before achieved by a captain.
In December 2008 he captained the first South African side that won a test series against Australia on their soil, in the course inflicting the first home defeat on the opponents in 16 years. On 7 January 2009, in the third test of the series, Smith received a standing ovation from the crowd when he batted in the second innings despite a broken hand in an attempt to save the Third Test. He fell with ten balls remaining and Australia won the Test.
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Meaty, muscular and mighty, that's Graeme Smith, who looms even larger than all that as South Africa's colossus of a captain. His achievements as a batsman are significant, but the most important monument to his career is the fact that under Smith, the confidence of South Africans, both within and outside of the national team and its structures, has been rebuilt.
Smith's leadership and his batting are all about being direct and upfront. The subtleties of captaincy have grown into his game, but he is still at his most comfortable surging once more unto the breach himself with a cursory backward glance to see if his men are following.
His batting is similarly forthright: anything bowled near his pads will be sent screaming through midwicket. Anything drivable on the off-side will be driven, brutally, often inelegantly, but always effectively. Square of jaw and shoulder, they don't call him "Biff" for nothing. With Smith, what you see really is what you get.
Smith can hardly be blamed for doing things his own way. He was, after all, handed the reins at 22 - which made him his country's youngest captain - and tasked with rebuilding South Africans' faith in the integrity of game itself. That precious jewel had been shattered by Hansie Cronje's immoral greed and it was not restored completely under Shaun Pollock's sincere but undemonstrative leadership.
If Pollock was too maturely minded a captain for South African sensibilities, Smith was spot on: an overgrown schoolyard bully of the nicest possible type who would just as soon take a (verbal) swing at an opponent as buy him a beer. After the game, of course.
The double centuries Smith scored in his 11th and 12th Tests, and just his third and fourth as captain, in England in 2003 made for an ironclad argument to retain his overtly direct approach to getting the job done. Those were his early days in charge, but arguably his greatest triumph came much later, when he led South Africa to their first Test series victory in Australia, in 2008-09. Through all his Test triumphs, though, he still couldn't get his hands on a chunk of ICC silverware, a prize that has eluded South Africa since 1998.
After the third day's play of the third Test against Australia at Newlands in March 2014, Smith told his team-mates the ongoing match would be his last as an international cricketer. It was also his leanest series of his career. Smith scored just 45 runs in six innings and admitted having retirement at the back of his mind contributed to the lack of form. He chose to pull stumps on his home ground and said captaining South Africa was nothing less than a "privilege."
Graeme Smith takes up Irish citizenship
The boy giant who stood up to legendshttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/sports/cricket/graeme-smith-retires-from-south-african-cricket.html?_r=0BBC Sport - Graeme Smith is one of cricket's greatest skippers - Alec Stewart
