South Africa deserve to be in Test final - Smith - video Dailymotion

Steve Smith says Australia have ignored the media criticism concerning South Africa's place in the final

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00:00we're obviously playing in a big game i think both teams deserve to be here for the the test

00:04championship final uh you know they've got a really good side um you know particularly

00:09bowling attack led by rubata who's obviously record speaks for itself and some other quality

00:15performers around i think marco jansen's you know a quality performer in giddy's done it for a while

00:20and there's some other options there that can can do a really good job as well with a with a good

00:24spinner in in maharaj so um yeah the batters are going to have their their work cut out for for

00:30them um but we're all prepared and ready to play tired of speaking about it to be honest we're here

00:36and that's all that matters we get a chance to to walk away as the world test champions um playing

00:44australia doesn't get any bigger than that um so yeah what's gone before it counts for absolutely

00:52nothing at at the minute um and we we be quietly confident going into this game

00:58that we can pull one over them um we're a confident bunch we we play well as a unit

01:06and if there are any vulnerabilities amongst them i'm sure we'd be able to exploit that