Former SA skipper Graeme Smith reminisces his 'earliest memory of falling in love with cricket'
The Daily Guardian|September 11, 2024
Former South African captain Graeme Smith, reminisced on what made him fall in love with cricket and also talked about his days as a cricketer in his school days.
Former SA skipper Graeme Smith reminisces his 'earliest memory of falling in love with cricket'

The Proteas legend was speaking to ANI on Monday about the upcoming third season of the domestic franchise league SA20, from January 9 next year,, and the launch of Schools SA20, a program by SA20 and Cricket South Africa (CSA) designed to discover and nurture cricket talent among both girls and boys across the country.

Speaking to ANI during the interaction, the league's commissioner Smith said that seeing Proteas in the 1992 World Cup for the first time since the country's reintroduction of world cricket following a ban due to its racial Apartheid policy, created a dream in him and many other young boys like him to represent the rainbow nation in cricket.

Smith also credited his school, King Edward VII School in Johannesburg, for the role they played in the cricket journey of him and other internationallevel talents like Quinton de Kock, Neil McKenzie, Stephen Cook, etc.

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