Dale Steyn

Which, which, like, I think we should normalize giving dogs surnames, particularly- Mm ... um, quadruple-barrelled ones like And Heel Here, Son.

Uh, Becky's listening in Cape Town recently ended up having a chat and a coffee with Dale Steyn.

Nice.

Go well.

There were great players making, you know, who were achieving great things.

If you think back to Mitchell Johnson, Hashim Amla, Ebi de Villiers, Dale Steyn.

These were great players.

And of course, you know, that 10-year block concluded with a very controversial series here in 2018 and what happened at Newlands with the Australian cricket team there.

... minimum, if not better.

Uh, more important, the guys there I've mentioned before, Dale Steyn, Waqar Younis, you know, Kagiso Rabada-

Mm

... or Kagiso Rabada.

Yes

... you know, Terry Alderman didn't have an unbelievable inswinger.

Um, I think of Dale Steyn, his outswinger I, I thought was unbeli-

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I mean, I've, I, I heard Dale Steyn talking and, uh, about, about bowling and I actually totally concur with this.

There is something incredibly satisfying about using just your body, uh, to propel that ball 80 miles an hour plus-

Mm

Yeah.

That's...

To be, to be able to do that, he'd like Dale Steyn, anyone who bowls like that, it'd be insane.

Well, you're doing pretty well doing what you're doing.

Shoaib का slingy is different.

Shaun Tait का ऐसा था कि action slow down कर दिया बीच में ऐसा। जैसे Ajmal break लेके दूसरा डालता था, वैसे ये break लेके मतलब और fast डालता था। Tait and, and, uh, the other one, uh, I would-- मतलब Devashish Mahanti was a kind of a nostalgic pick, and I was going to pick Dale Steyn.

Yeah, yeah.

Again, like, मैं, I also was very tempted to pick Steyn as my last pick.

Philander, not an out-and-out quick, but he was a highly, highly skilled bowler.

Dale Steyn, probably one of my favourite bowlers to watch in world cricket.

I loved watching him go about his work.

He had the ability, Dale Steyn, to turn it on and off in terms of pace, didn't he? Whereas, like, Alan Donald would run in and give 120% in terms of pace.

But Dale, towards the back end of his career, he would bowl with the skill and then suddenly realize, right, now it's time to turn it on.

And my next five overs are going to be proper pace.

Uh, Rizola, in his first spell, his speeds were around 90 miles an hour, and so h- his first ball was faster than all the deliveries bowled by Pakistan bowlers in the tour of West Indies plus the tour of England.

Uh, and his opening spell was just behind that of Mark Wood, Jofra Archer, Dale Steyn, Arnd-t Nortje, Shannon Gabriel, um, for fast bowlers bowling, um, spells in England since 2010.

Yeah.

So his speeds were up with those fast bowlers.