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 Smith joins Cronje as most successful SA Test captain
6th Apr 2008 21:17 IST
Agencies
South African captain Graeme Smith and coach Micky Arthur had additional reasons to rejoice after their team's thumping victory over hosts India in the second Test at the Motera stadium that put the visitors 1- 0 ahead in the three-Test series.
By leading his team to South Africa's biggest-ever winning margin over India, Smith joined former captain, the late Hansie Cronje, as the Proteas' most successful Test captain.
While Smith has led South Africa on 56 occasions with 27 victories, 15 losses and four draws, Cronje -- tainted by the match-fixing scandal and later banned for life after he accepted taking money to underperform before dying in a plane crash -- led the Rainbow nation in 53 matches. Of these, South Africa had won 27 and lost 11.
The visiting team's thumping innings victory in Ahmedabad yesterday also bettered their win-loss record in Tests on Indian soil to a creditable 4-3 ahead of the final Test at Kanpur.
Yesterday's victory was also South Africa's biggest winning margin against India, bettering the innings and 71 runs that Cronje's team achieved at Bangalore in 2000, incidentally the scam-tainted player's last match as captain which helped his team complete a 2-0 series win.
That was also the last occasion that India lost a home Test match by an innings. |
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