South Africa captain Graeme Smith stunned his team by announcing he will retire from international cricket at the end of the ongoing third Test against Australia at Newlands.
The opener is a veteran of 117 Tests, 109 of those as captain, and is the world record holder for the most Test wins as skipper of a five-day team with 53.
Smith made his Test debut against Australia in Cape Town in March 2002 and was surprisingly handed the captaincy aged 22 a year later. The most capped Test captain in the history of the game has amassed 9,262 Test runs at an average of 48.49 with 27 hundreds and 38 half-centuries. He also played 197 one-day internationals and 33 Twenty20 internationals.
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