Cricket (and sport in general) is far more interesting when people are making silly comments like that than when they're talking about bowling good areas and executing skills, so good on him (even if I will laugh at him).
Smith once hit on a girlfriend of mine pretty hard when he was smashed off his bonce (including the line 'you have a bf? don't you know who I am?'), so I'm never going to like the bloke, but he was the obvious choice for captain.