Graeme Smith slams Pietersen

Pass me the popcorn

Smith strikes me as a somewhat immature character who has too much to say on the field.

He would be better served keeping his mouth shut and concentrating on his captaincy which is often mediocre.

Lol, I can see this getting a little interesting...

Both KP and Smith are suffering from acute bawaseer of the mouth.

Tough one - I dont like when either shoot their mouth off.

Let the Afrikaaners battle amongst themselves!

Graeme Smith i am afraid is a very rude guy. From all his interviews and comments leading up to a series he always engages in verbal banter with the opposition whether it be Stephen Flemming (one of the nicer guys in the game), Michael Vaughan, Shane Warne e.t.c. Its a good thing that in our part of the world we are taught to respect our elders and not call them by their first names. I remmember when Kepler Wessels passed some advise onto Smith and told him to chose his words carefully (this was when SA toured AUS) and Smith retorted back telling Wessels to shut up and saying he had no right to make the comment since he sucked as a captain during his reign. Then i remmember when he publicly insulted Lance Klusenar by saying he was a disruptive influence on the SA team. He made racial comments to Dwayne Bravo after he got his 100, calls Michael Vaughan Gay unneccessarily and just read Vaughan Biography when he says that Smith testified against Vaughan to the match refree unneccessarily showing no diplomacy what so ever and as a result vaughan lost his match fees. I still remmember when Andrew Hall elbowed Youhanna deliberately in the Lahore ODi and Youhanna reacted, and Smith went all the way screaming to youhanna. If i was Youhanna i would have punched him in the face there and then.

Anyways my point beeing this guy is getting to big for his boots. He became captain at a very young age, so obviously he is more than greatful to SA cricket. Next time Shoaib bowls to Smith he should bowl the same beamer he attempted at Dhoni to Smith this time only straighter.

Don't suppose anyone has been reading his extracts from the Daily Mail? They've been very insightful about his relationship to South African cricket. It seems from what he's saying that he's got every right to be angry at the way he was treated. Smith on the other hand doesn't come across as the most appealing guy. He is far too opinionated.

He is a bully and not a surprise he is acting this way. Mind you, KP is no polished element of the sophisticated society. Thug vs Thug

Two of my least favourite cricketers washing thier dirty linen in public.

The one known as ''Awesome'' sits and laughs from the sidelines.

Both of them need to grow up.

Its easy to play the race card when you averaged 18 with the bat and more than double that with the ball. Had nothing to do with the fact that his record at the time was mediocre

Haha! When I read the title of this thread I thought it would involve a wrestling match between these two!

It's all handbags if you ask me.

KP should think back to why these quotas had to be introduced. Years of injustice under Apartheid perhaps???

let the Gloves come off, & let the Battles begin....

When are England playing South-Africa next , please say in next months champions trophy

Well said Mr. Graeme Smith. Well said.

Pietersen is a selfish, money hungry traitor...who is attacking is place of origin...just for the sake of being in the Engish side, and hence in the limelight.

Would love to see a punch up between those two. I think Pietersen would give it the large and then probably run like a CHICKEN.

So if you can please elaborate on a point. What is the policy of Natal team composition? I don't think it can be of "all-colored". So a player like Pieteresen was not good enough, he says, of taking a single slot reserved for whites in a provincial team?

Regarding Smith, he is a brash insolent fool who is taking SA team down.

It was not quite the way he made it out to be, but a team will struggle to pick a player who is averaging 18 with the bat and 37 with the ball, and not vice versa.

I agree with whatever has been said about Smith though

Selfish? Money-Hungry?

Why is that?

Just two attention seekers having a go at each other.

Pietersen the batsman, I am very impressed with. Pietersen, the person, is a thug. As is Graeme Smith.

KP and smith is truely a match made in heaven!

No matter what Smith says, RSA bowlers were made to bow to pieterson in the 2005 series!

I agree with both. Pieterson was good enough but was held by the quota system...no point involving apatheid system - albeit understand reasoning of the quota system introduced...If he didnt get games he would probably still stuck there right now.

Plus, it sounds like if he had to choose ..he would of chosen south africa everytime.

but, Pieterson's comments aren't helpful.

A response to Pieterson from a black South African:

KP shoots his mouth off a bit but as long as it's to sponges like Smith, I won't blame him for it. Nobody likes Graeme Smith it seems, he fully deserves all the grief fellow cricketers give him. He has no right to act so rudely to people who have achieved a lot more than he has, ok so Smith got given the captaincy at a very young age, but that was because nobody else could do it (Pollock was disgraced, Kallis had enough on his plate already, as for the rest...) but the power has gone to his head. The comment Shane Warne made about him that 'if you opened an egg on his face it would be boiled in a minute' was hilarious to say the least.

Pietersen is a cocky so-and-so, we all know that, but he usually backs up his claims with results, and has gotten used to proving his critics wrong over the last couple of years. He also seems like a bloke that won't say something unless he has good reason to. Smith meanwhile, seems to always prove his critics right with the frequent, childish outbursts. The abuse that Smith predicts KP will get from the Aussie crowds will happen, partly because of KP's past success against them and also because he is a 'love to hate' character. But I remember last time he didn't have a friend in the world outside his own camp (touring South Africa), it just made him play better, so he will welcome the abuse.

And for those of you who are wondering, SA are my second team and I am half South african.

oh the dilemas KP is facing these days

Does anyone remember what happened KP was shooting his mouth off?

Ok, here's a reminder to those who don't:

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/s...ead.php?t=21795

Who can forget that Raz!

That was a duel of beastly proportions.