Graeme Smith vows to take aggression to Lord’s – Cricket News Roundup – August 7, 2012 – Part 3
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 captain Graeme Smith is confident his injured players would use the 10-day gap before Lord’s Test to return to full fitness.
“There is lots of time in between the games so that will give enough time to recover and get ready for the next game,” said the South African skipper at a press conference after the second Investec Test at Leeds ended in a draw.
Three visiting players, opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692, picked up various injuries during the drawn second Test, at Headingley. Petersen is battling a hamstring strain he had sustained during his century knock
in the first innings, Graeme Smith is recovering from a knee injury he picked up on the third day fielding at the backward-point boundary, while veteran all-rounder Kallis is suffering from back spasms, also picked on the third day of the drawn Test.
England skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 was a mistake on his part.
“We probably misjudged the wicket. It didn't do as much as we'd have liked,” said the home skipper at the post-match press conference on Monday night.
"But we probably missed Graeme in the second half of the game given that they scored 400," he added further.
In the absence of the off-spinner, the four-pronged pace attack of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 struggled against the formidable Proteas batting line-up, conceding 419 runs in their first innings.
Former Pakistan coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohsin-Hasan-Khan-c77595 feels a successful limited-overs series against Australia later this month will boost the morale of Pakistan ahead of next month’s World T20 Championship, in Sri Lanka.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Australia is a tough opponent. Beating Australia will help Pakistan gain confidence ahead of the World Cup,” the former PCB chief selector was quoted as saying by Pakpassion.net.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, where they will open up their World T20 campaign against
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 on September 23.
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