We adapted well to conditions at The Oval, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DW-Steyn-c1409 – Cricket News Update
South Africa’s spearhead pace bowler, Dale Steyn on Thursday lavished praise on his fellow bowlers for “adopting well” to the bowling conditions on slow flat, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-John-Trevor-Miller-c44458 Oval wicket.
"We adapted well, I don't know if it's the fact the we play a lot of IPL cricket, but we managed to bowl straight at the stumps, when playing in the sub you've got to attack the stumps,” said Steyn while speaking to the media persons after his side’s
innings and 12 run win over hosts, England, in the opening Test of the three-match series at The Oval, earlier this week.
Though it was the dazzling performance from South African top order that set the tone for innings win, a lot of credit must be given to the visiting bowlers who claimed 20 wickets of the formidable http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 line-up, on a surface that had little to offer
to the bowlers.
Hashim Amla’s record 313 not out were well complemented by Jacques Kallis’ 182 not out and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Smith-c1473’s 131, as the tourists posted a formidable total of 637 for 2 declare, in reply to England’s first innings total of 385.
Dale Steyn then led the visiting attack from the front, returning with figures of 5 for 56 in 21 overs, as the whole team of England was bundled out for just 240. The veteran seamer was well supported by spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-c64193 Tahir, who claimed figures of
3 for 63 in 32 overs. Earlier, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Morkel-c73528 was South Africa’s wrecker in chief in England’s first innings, with figures of 4 for 72 in 24.5 overs.
However a cause for concern for Graeme Smith would be the number of extras conceded by his bowlers at the Oval, 43 in the first innings, and 39 in the second innings.
Steyn, however, backed the extras saying, "There were a lot of extras, a lot of leg-byes, because we were going at the stumps, we hit the pads, we knew that's how we'd get wickets with lbws.”
“After the first innings we had six appeals that if given would have been 'umpires call' for lbw."
The second Test gets underway at Leeds, on August 2.
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