Dale Steyn

Dale Steyn Biography

Dale Steyn is by far the best pace bowler of his generation, a supreme combination of pace, skill and uncanny fitness. And it is inevitable that he will end his career ranked among the greatest fast bowlers of all time.

Perhaps the scorching heat of Valley of Olifants where he was born forged Steyn into the super-athlete that he is. To conserve energy while generating extreme pace in furnace-like conditions, he probably bartered his expressions. He picks up a wicket every seven overs in Tests, is uniformly lethal around the world, his brooding menace remains unaltered even as he changes into the coloured attire of shorter formats. All the while, his visage betrays barely a flicker of emotion.

At frantic speed he swings the ball in both directions — in traditional and reverse ways. He skids on, darts in, and veers away from right-handers at alarming angles. One ball thudded into the face of Craig Cummins resulting in 23 fractures to the Kiwi batsman. His average is streets ahead of others in this bat-dominated era, and his strike rate remains among the top five across space and time. His new-ball combination with Vernon Philander has rarely been matched. And all this is achieved with wicked, poison-tipped deliveries sent down at the end of an excellent economic action.

The mind boggles when one considers the peaks he may scale if blessed with a few more uninterrupted, injury-free years as the gold-tipped spearhead of South Africa.

Arunabha Sengupta

Dale Steyn Batting & Fielding Averages

Career	M	In	R	NO	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	93	119	1251	27	76	13.59	2824	44.29	0	2	124	36	26	0
ODIs	125	51	365	12	60	9.359	562	64.94	0	1	35	9	28	0
T20s	47	12	21	6	5*	3.500	26	80.76	0	0	2	0	12	0
World Cup	14	4	45	0	20*	11.25	73	61.64	0	0	7	0	4	0

Dale Steyn Bowling Averages

Career	M	B	R	W	Avg	EC	SR	5WI	10WM	BBI	BBM
Test	93	18608	10077	439	22.95	3.249	42.	26	5	7/51	11/60
ODIs	125	6256	5087	196	25.95	4.878	31.91	3	0	6/8	6/39
T20s	47	1015	1175	64	18.35	6.945	15.85	0	0	4/9	4/9
World Cup	14	690	538	23	23.39	4.678	30.00	1	--	5/50	6/39

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