I think what Graeme Smith did took balls of an unusually firm nature.
To go out with two bung arms in a dead rubber shows his team what the benchmark for tough test player is, and anyone slacking off can be reminded of it.
Allan Border use to lead with his chest against the great West Indian bowling attacks, and no one ever dared slack off in front of him before.
However the bravest man in world cricket tag cricinfo has been throwing around is a bit much.
Wicket keepers play with broken bones constantly, Haddin played with a broken finger that was also infected.
Chris Gayle played with a broken bone is his hand against South Africa last year, and made runs doing so coming in at 11.
Justin Langer used to play with a head that could only take one more hit to make him dead, and dead is bad.
And Brett Lee just played with cracks in his legs.
If a blogger called him the bravest man in world cricket, I probably would have let it go.
Us bloggers are prone to the odd moment of ever exaggeration, but this is Peter English, Australia’s chief cricinfo dude.
He has got a bit ahead of himself.
We all know the bravest man in world cricket is Shiv, because you'd have to be brave to wear sticky tape on your face.
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