Leaner Smith's six-year goal

He's trimmed down, he's hungry to do more, and he's not not taking lightly the old “who ate all the pies?” jibe about South Africa. Thats Graeme Smith in focus, who spoke to the website Sport24's Rob Houwing about his renewed desire to play for South Africa for “five or six more years”. Smith has enjoyed the relative rarity of a meaningful off-season and hit the gym hard, emerging noticeably lean and mean.

“I’ve been working hard here with Rob Walter, the new SA fitness trainer, and with the people at Province. “So it feels like I’m back as an 18- or 19-year-old again, grafting hard. But I really want to give myself the best opportunity to play for five or six years more for South Africa. I want to be fit enough to achieve that.”