Smith hoping SA cricket team give Pietersen a rough ride

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — South Africa captain Graeme Smith made it plain here Wednesday that despite leading the series 2-0 the visitors weren't about to give new England captain Kevin Pietersen a free ride in the third and final Test starting at the Oval Thursday.

"We want to end the series well, we want to make it 3-0," said Smith.

"When we hold up the trophy at the end of this Test match it will be nice if we can have played really well here at the Oval."

Smith said the real pressures of captaincy for Pietersen would come with time.

"He's got a once-off Test match against us and he'll obviously be hugely motivated. He'll be excited, he'll be nervous and he'll have a lot of energy.

"It's about sustaining that afterwards. For us, the best way to keep...