Proteas batter Jason Smith in action for MI Cape Town in the Betway SA20. JASON Smith belongs to an elite group of cricketers in South Africa that have actually won an ICC white-ball limited overs World Cup. Among his contemporaries are Proteas T20 captain Aiden Markram, Kagiso Rabada and Corbin Bosch after they lifted the ICC U19 World Cup together in Dubai back in 2014.
And now for the first time, the MI Cape Town top-order batter will join them for a shot at a senior ICC T20 World Cup to be held next month in India and Sri Lanka. It has been more than a decade-long wait, but Smith feels that watching their achievements over the years has only fuelled his desire to be successful at international level even more. “I think I’ve grown a lot as a cricketer and as a person where early on in my career I was extremely tough and difficult, especially on myself where I’ve tended to go in the complete opposite way, where now I’m just trying to be positive and actually enjoy my cricket,” Smith said in a MI Cape Town video. “I’m always looking for any sort of positive that can be taken out of any situation, whether it’s somebody else doing well, somebody does something great in the field or somebody bowls an amazing ball.
