Clive Rice, one of South Africa's feted cricketers, believes a change of guard is in order in South African cricket.
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The cricketer who captained South Africa post apartheid in an ODI series against India in 1991-'92 but never played an official Test due to the isolation period feels that South African cricket is being rendered a disservice in continuing with Graeme Smith was captain.
Instead Rice has voiced his view of having the spinner, Johan Botha lead South Africa in all formats because he believes Botha showed a lot of enterprise leading South Africa against Australia in the ODI series earlier in the year down under.
Rice believed that Smith failed to convert his team into a winning machine, especially in the big tournaments, and that his one dimensional thinking was not really taking South Africa anywhere.
Rice stated, "What has he actually achieved as captain? For me, he is too one-dimensional as captain and he shows no enterprising spirit."
The comments could not have come at a more inopportune time for Smith who was staring down the barrel after England turned the game on its head on the fourth day of the first Test of their tour to South Africa at Kingsmead, Durban with the hosts under severe pressure to save the Test, which now appears a distant possibility.
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