It's ironic that the two 'fatties' of cricket Shane Warne and Graeme Smith are in the same IPL team, the Roly-Poly Royals, (I wonder if they're sponsored by Burger King?)

Smith's cricketing girth is what is more important as he is probably the major beneficiary of exposure within this equation and I wonder if it could be telling when he 'snacks' on the English this season en route to the cherry on the cake, the Australian Pavlovas.

'It's ironic that the two 'fatties' of cricket, Shane Warne and Graeme Smith, are in the same IPL team, the Roly-Poly Royals'


The breadcrumbs left for Smith by Warney will be pearls of wisdom and the 27-year-old South African I'm sure is literally a sponge cake soaking in the marinade of the matured cordon bleu chef of spin.

The young captain must take every advantage of this type of environment to expand his horizons and putting his ego in his pocket I'm sure has taken some doing. But judging by his tight- lipped show thus far he's doing exactly as he has been told (look, listen and learn!)

We South Africans remember the early days of the emergence of Smith in England and the back-to-back double centuries that set him up for the future were sculptured like a chess grand-master well beyond his years.