lol South African captains being adventurous, they are the most timid ones ever.
think only really Amla would risk to lose a game and even then the guy didn't want to lose a test when they only need 20 runs to win from 2-3 overs or something like that against india.
think Amla only been aggressive once in his captaincy career in Sri lanka.
for me Australia are the most aggressive and they are the ones that lost most often as well while they should be winning not one aggressive declaration made any difference to the game for them.
Also all the talk about england setting a declaration around 250, india scored 172.
bit of a risk setting a target of 250 on what they probably thought was a good batting deck at the time why risk losing a game which they worked so bloody hard to win.
really if england didn't take early wickets very good chance of india chasing 250 down or getting very close, no one would be that brave and declare at 0-0 with 4 to play in a test match both teams can't lose for confidence and momentum reasons.
Edit Smith was captain not amla.
but still SA needed 458 to win and they draw with 450 lol,
I couldn't stop laughing at them.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engin...ch/648665.html