Full name: Dale Willem Steyn
Born: June 27, 1983, Phalaborwa
Current age: 36 years 194 days
Major teams: South Africa, Africa XI, Cape Cobras, Deccan Chargers, Essex,
Gujarat Lions, Jamaica Tallawahs, Melbourne Stars, Northerns, Royal Challengers Bangalore,
Sunrisers Hyderabad, Titans, Warwickshire, PSL Islamabad United Team.
National side: South Africa
Playing role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm fast
A predator’s eyes, a scary dash to the wrinkle, and a haze of a cherry, scarcely detectable to the eye, moving beyond
the bat before the intellectual capacities can process it, and seeing ruined and cartwheeling stumps in the outcome of
the batsman’s end exemplify the wonder of Dale Steyn. One of the all the more captivating sights of Test cricket in the
21st century has been Steyn running in max speed and timing 150+, forming the mark outswinger away from a leg-stump line voluntarily and opening up the batsman’s position to hit the highest point of off-stump. An old-style front-on activity
with a discharge recklessly determined twisted after landing it on a length, irate pace to coordinate it, and a smart personality to supplement the muscle, Dale Steyn has been one of the most complete quick bowlers of his age.
Steyn made his Test debut in 2004, alongside a kindred new kid on the block by the name of AB de Villiers, after he
dazzled Ray Jennings with his crude pace and stamina, in the home arrangement against England after a joined encounter of only 7 five star games. A lowering misfortune on debut set him back as he got only 3 wickets in the game,
in spite of the fact that it incorporated a ripper of an outswinger to thump over Michael Vaughan in the subsequent
innings. After a count of only 8 wickets in the 3-Test arrangement, Steyn neglected to have a critical effect and was
dropped from the side.
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After a huge number of great top of the line exhibitions, Steyn kept on being in the radar and made a rebound in 2006
for the home arrangement against New Zealand. Careful about not getting another opportunity, Steyn made his imprint
quickly with a five-for in his first Test and bowled with more precision and power than the tenderfoot 2 years sooner. He
got 16 wickets in 3 Test coordinates and tormented the Kiwis with his wrecker-in-boss, Makhaya Ntini. Steyn kept on destroying restrictions and was named one of South Africa’s five cricketers of the year. In spite of the respect of this
honor, because of the challenge for quick bowlers in the side, Steyn wound up out of the retribution toward the start of
2007, referring to the explanation that he didn’t have the force required off a quick bowler.
There was no thinking back after that. In his prime as a quick bowler, Steyn got a barely reasonable 86 wickets in 14
games in 2008, gaining him the lofty ICC Player of the Year grant in 2008. After stalwarts like Makhaya Ntini and
Shaun Pollock considered it daily, Steyn proceeded to shape a deadly opening organization with Morne Morkel.
With all the seaming goodness from a giraffe’s range from one end, and the quick swinging jolts from another, the
two shaped, seemingly, the most fearsome bowling pair-up of the age.
Steyn’s most distinguished accomplishment, in any case, won’t be a World Cup triumph or a breathtaking T20 class
win; it’ll be his commitment in a South African Test side that commanded abroad in an age when the home arrangement was beginning to turn out to be increasingly more uneven. After an annihilation of Australia on the planet’s hardest patio
in 2009, he created an extraordinary spell of switch swing in the away visit against India to get 7-51 on a level wicket
in Nagpur, to convey a South African triumph as the guests went 1-0 up in the arrangement, just for India to make
a rebound and tie the arrangement in Kolkata with an exciting last-session triumph. South Africa went onto a command
in the voyage through England in 2012 and won 2-0, as Steyn obviously beat the wicket graphs with 15 scalps in 3
games. At the apex of their Test game, South Africa got the Test Championship mace after this triumph and turned
into the most noteworthy positioned Test side on the planet, taking over from England.
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After very nearly 6 years at the pinnacle of his powers, Steyn’s body was beginning to separate, tragically for South
Africa, in another ICC competition (the Champion’s Trophy of 2013) as he was precluded with a crotch strain. His
trust with wounds proceeded, with a cracked rib, a side-strain, and numerous hamstring strains.
In the resulting home arrangement against Australia, Steyn bowled an amazing spell in the second Test yet damage halfway through the third made him an obligation as Australia proceeded to win the arrangement 2-1, featuring the
degree of Steyn’s exhibitions on South Africa’s fortunes. He was likewise fit in time for the arrangement in Sri Lanka
as he assumed a significant job in South Africa’s first arrangement win in Sri Lanka in over 20 years – another plume
in the top for Steyn and South Africa, another away Test arrangement triumph.
Steyn has been a key bowler for his establishments in the Indian Premier League too, producing magnificent bowling spells, first with Bangalore and later for the Hyderabad establishment. He was likewise held by the Hyderabad group during the 2014 closeout.
In late 2015, Steyn was in the main XI on the visit to India, yet he got crotch damage in the principal Test and missed the remainder of the arrangement. Thus, South Africa’s reign in away Test arrangement broke following 9 mind-boggling a
long time as they were steamrolled by India 3-0 out of a low-scoring visit loaded with dustbowls. Steyn had another plenty
of wounds as he missed a large portion of the arrangement against England, however, made a rebound in mid-2016 for
the arrangement against New Zealand, before separating with a harmed shoulder during the Australia visit.
Steyn proceeded to break the 400-wicket hindrance in 2017 and equaled Shaun Pollock’s count of 421 Test wickets
before the finish of the short 2-Test away arrangement against Sri Lanka in 2018, as spinners made happy on two handcrafted dustbowls. Prior that year, he got harmed after the primary Test against India as South Africa proceeded
to win 2-1, and shockingly couldn’t be in the field to observe South Africa’s first home arrangement win against
Australia after readmission in the midst of the riotous ball-altering debate.
The fearsome bowler is in his mid-thirties and is maybe in the nightfall of his vocation. With his 30s being damaged
with wounds, he is recovering from one more one, as he hopes to close down from Test cricket with one final hurrah,
and maybe dreams of a rebound for the World Cup of 2019 as well, with the goal of at last giving South Africa an
ICC competition win, shake off the chokers’ tag for acceptable, and maybe execute one last cutting tool festivity
without dreading for his shoulder.
The mistake of having passed up a great opportunity the 2019 World Cup made Steyn understand that he needs to get
his playing days going ahead and thus he chose to resign from Test cricket as he had an eye on the T20 World Cup
in 2020. He joined in the Big Bash League 2019-20 for the Melbourne Stars and proceeded with his collusion with
Cape Town Blitz in the Mzansi Super League.
Batting &
Fielding |
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
Tests | 93 | 119 | 27 | 1251 | 76 | 13.59 | 2825 | 44.28 | 0 | 2 | 124 | 36 | 26 | 0 |
ODIs | 125 | 51 | 12 | 365 | 60 | 9.35 | 562 | 64.94 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 9 | 28 | 0 |
T20Is | 44 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 3.20 | 23 | 69.56 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
First-class | 141 | 173 | 40 | 1824 | 82 | 13.71 | 3788 | 48.15 | 0 | 4 | 33 | 0 | ||
List A | 180 | 69 | 21 | 419 | 60 | 8.72 | 635 | 65.98 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 0 | ||
T20s | 213 | 65 | 30 | 306 | 27* | 8.74 | 279 | 109.67 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 53 | 0 |
Bowling | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 |
Tests | 93 | 171 | 18608 | 10077 | 439 | 7/51 | 11/60 | 22.95 | 3.24 | 42.3 | 27 | 26 | 5 |
ODIs | 125 | 124 | 6256 | 5087 | 196 | 6/39 | 6/39 | 25.95 | 4.87 | 31.9 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
T20Is | 44 | 44 | 943 | 1068 | 61 | 4/9 | 4/9 | 17.50 | 6.79 | 15.4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
First-class | 141 | 27183 | 14569 | 618 | 8/41 | 23.57 | 3.21 | 43.9 | 33 | 35 | 7 | ||
List A | 180 | 8844 | 6991 | 284 | 6/39 | 6/39 | 24.61 | 4.74 | 31.1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | |
T20s | 213 | 210 | 4745 | 5308 | 251 | 4/9 | 4/9 | 21.14 | 6.71 | 18.9 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Batting & Bowling | Team | Opposition | Ground | Date | Scorecard |
2/16 | Melb Stars | v Melb Reneg | Melbourne | 4-01-2020 | T20 |
0/24 | Melb Stars | v Syd Thunder | Sydney | 2-01-2020 | T20 |
2/12 | Melb Stars | v Hurricanes | Launceston | 30-12-2019 | T20 |
1/29 | Melb Stars | v Strikers | Carrara | 27-12-2019 | T20 |
3/10 | Blitz | v Spartans | Cape Town | 1-12-2019 | T20 |
2/25 | Blitz | v Durban Heat | Cape Town | 28-11-2019 | T20 |
2/38 | Blitz | v Paarl Rocks | Cape Town | 24-11-2019 | T20 |
8*, 2/38 | Blitz | v Giants | Port Elizabeth | 20-11-2019 | T20 |
2/23 | Blitz | v Durban Heat | Durban | 17-11-2019 | T20 |
1/33 | Blitz | v Jozi Stars | Cape Town | 14-11-2019 | T20 |
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