South African cricket captain Graeme Smith, his right hand in a cast upon his return from Australia on Thursday, said he would be meeting with a surgeon on Saturday to discuss his chronic tennis elbow. "It is really a matter of resting it, and then finding a window of eight to 12 weeks so that I can have surgery," the South African Press Association quoted him as saying at an airport news conference. "In the meantime, we will just be treating it and keeping it manageable." South Africa won the first two Tests and narrowly lost the third in Australia. Smith, who broke his hand during the Third Test, said he expected the return series in South Africa to be equally hard fought. "We are going to need our guys to be fresh, and so we are going to have to manage our bowlers during the one-day series in Australia," he said. "We know that with Australia you have to earn every inch, and I think they have a lot of respect for us now.They know we never went away, and we pushed them all the way. I am really looking forward to being involved in the Test series back home," he added.
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