CSA chief congratulates Dale Steyn on 250 Test wickets – Cricket News Update
Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DW-Steyn-c1409, for being the second quickest bowler of the history to complete 250 Test wickets, terming it to be a ‘magnificent achievement’.
Steyn accomplished this feat by picking the Sri Lankan skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691, in the first Test match of the ongoing series at December 15 at SuperSport Park, Centurion. It was the 49th Test of his career. The speedster bowled exceptionally
well and grabbed a 4-wicket haul to restrict the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 to merely 180 runs in their first innings.
Before Steyn, the former Australian fast bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dennis-Keith-Lillee-c53639, had bagged this mark in 48 games.
Majola claims that if Steyn keeps bowling with the same momentum, he will soon join the club of Allan Donald, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Ntini-c1865 as the fourth African pacer to have 300 wickets.
Talking to the media yesterday, the CEO said, “It is a magnificent achievement by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110. Dale is also one of only four bowlers ever to have a career strike rate below 30 and the only one to do so who has taken more than 200 wickets.”
He further told, “It can only be a matter of time before he becomes the fourth South African to join the 300 wickets club alongside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Allan-Anthony-Donald-c43680, Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini and it is a reminder of how fortunate we have been to have this quartet leading
our bowling attack in the 20 years since we rejoined the international cricket community.”
Apart from Majola, some other CSA officials and home fans have congratulated their pacer on the most awesome achievement of his career.
Interestingly, Steyn staged his Test debut on 17, December 2004 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Port Elizabeth. Today, the 28-year-old has exactly completed 7 years in international cricket.
Along with 5-day games, the right-arm pacer has played 57 ODI and 21 T20I matches so far, grabbing 86 and 29 wickets respectively. In the cricketing circles of the world, he is well known for his pure and pinpoint pace coupled with poison-tipped aggression.
He possesses a skill to move the ball both ways.
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