Smith optimistic over fitness fight

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Smith has been suffering with an elbow injury which, coupled with a fracture in his left hand sustained in the third Test in Sydney last month, forced him to return early from the tour Down Under.

"The elbow is coming along nicely. I don't want to tempt fate, but so far it's going as well as I could have hoped," he told Die Burger. "The medical team is very happy with my progress. I have not felt the pain I had been struggling with for the past six months."

Australia arrived in South Africa on Monday and will play a three-day tour match against a President's XI in Potchefstroom, starting on Friday, ahead of the opening Test at the Wanderers.

The two sides will play three Tests, two Twenty20 internationals and a five-match one-day series over the next two months.