It is the second milestone for Smith while he remains in international exile, after skippering Sutherland to the Twenty20 Cup championship only a week ago.

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Sutherland were 1-179 at stumps on the first day of the two-day match, having won first-innings points.

The previous day Smith had confronted the media for the first time since his teary confession at Sydney Airport in late March. He was asked about the infamous lunch break at Newlands on day three of the third Test against South Africa during which a plan was hatched to use sandpaper to alter the condition of the ball.

"It’s been documented pretty heavily what went on," said Smith, who has not spoken about the specifics of the incident before. "In the room I walked past something and had the opportunity to stop it and I didn’t do it and that was my leadership failure. It was a potential for something to happen. It went out and happened on the field. I had the opportunity to stop it rather than say I didn’t want to know anything about it. That was my failure of leadership for that and I have taken responsibility for that.

Asked what he had said when he learnt about the ball-tampering plan, Smith replied:

“I don’t want to know about it," he said. "And I walked away."