graeme smith; smith on south african team performance; kagiso rabada | Aiden Markram | keshav maharaj Smith said – the credit for the team’s success goes to the players: Former South Africa captain said – wants to bring 50-60 players to the world stage every year

Former South African captain Graeme Smith believes that the players should get credit for the team’s success. He said- ‘I think the players and the national team should get credit for their performance in the last few years. The league is working towards providing strong options for the national team.

In the last few years, South Africa’s men’s and women’s teams have performed brilliantly. The team won the World Test Championship in June-2025. Not only this, she was runner up in the Women’s ODI World Cup and Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.

South Africa won the World Test Championship by defeating Australia in June this year.

Linked to the role of SA20 league on the team’s success Dainik Bhaskar On the question, Graeme said- ‘Regarding our role, we have always said that we want to bring 50-60 players on the global stage every year. We want to expose them to the best cricket and help develop the pool of players for the national teams.

He further said- ‘I think over the last few years we have definitely seen a lot of players developing their game and becoming great international cricketers from talented youngsters.’ Smith was answering questions from journalists in the ‘GeoStar Press Room’ ahead of the fourth season of SA20 starting on December 26. Fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Aiden Markram were also involved in this.

All team captains posed with the trophy before the SA20.

Rabada said- We have a good opportunity to prepare for the World Cup South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada said that the SA20 League will provide him a great opportunity to spend time on the field ahead of next year’s T20 World Cup. Rabada was not part of South Africa’s tour of India due to a rib injury. But, he wants to improve his skills in this league with MI Cape Town.

Rabada said, ‘Yes, this is a great opportunity to play matches and adapt yourself to the T20 format. We have not played much T20 cricket this year. So yes, it is going to be a great tournament. Rabada feels that playing in different conditions in South Africa during the league will provide a good challenge to the players before the big ICC tournament.

Kagiso Rabada is making a comeback after a rib injury.

Markram said- we have enough matches before the World Cup South Africa’s T20 captain Aiden Markram said- ‘It is great that we will play T20 cricket for a few days before the start of the World Cup, but I don’t think you would want to put too much energy on the teams in your league. We will ask the players to worry about the World Cup.

Markram, captain of Durban Super Giants in the league, said, “Both the tournaments are completely different. I think it’s important that the players take it that way. When we reach the World Cup, the players will have played a lot of T20 matches. Hopefully we will have good confidence and form that we can take forward.

Aiden Markram has been made the captain of Durban Super Giants.

Maharaj is excited to be with Ganguly-Pollock Pretoria Capitals captain Keshav Maharaj is excited to have former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and former all-rounder Shaun Pollock in his coaching staff. “Of course, this is my first year with Pretoria Capitals,” Maharaj said. Had some conversation with Sourav sir so I am really excited.

He said, ‘Generally there are a lot of runs scored in Pretoria so I think you want to let the batsmen do their thing and as a bowler you want to find ways to deal with them. But it’s really very exciting. We have some greats of the game on our coaching staff and look forward to learning from their knowledge and energy when the competition begins. ,

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