Smith must take risks to level series

Graeme Smith will in time be known as one of South Africa's best ever captains, believes Barry Richards, but come Thursday he has to overcome his own and his side's frustration at the feeling that the gods are against them. With the likelihood of time being cut short, Smith will have to be less cautious than normal if South Africa are to level this series, writes Richards in the Daily Telegraph.

Smith's side is on the verge of being very good, and is still the only one to have beaten Australia in Australia in the last 15 years. His hundred at Cape Town, together with his captaincy, won him the man-of-the-match award and took him up to No 4 in the ICC rankings of Test batsmen. And all this is quite apart from the fact that nobody is ready to take over the captaincy from him.