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Jun 27, 1983 Phalaborwa, Limpopo, South Africa 40 years old

Cricket player of South Africa

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About Dale Steyn

  • Dale Willem Steyn (; born 27 June 1983) is a professional cricketer who plays for the South African Cricket Team.
  • He is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time.
  • During the 2007/08 season Steyn achieved a tally of 78 wickets at an average of 16.24, and was subsequently rewarded with the ICC 2008 Test Cricketer of the Year Award.
  • He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2013, and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2013 in 2014’s Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.Steyn dominated the number one spot in the ICC Test rankings during the peak of his career, for a record 263 weeks between 2008 and 2014.
  • Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan sits next on the list with 214 weeks.
  • In terms of days, Steyn has spent 2,356 days at the top as of 6 October 2016, the most by any bowler since World War II.
  • In October 2012, former South African test cricketer Allan Donald called the South African pace attack, which Steyn was part of, alongside Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel, the best South Africa has ever produced.
  • Steyn played a cameo as himself in the 2014 Hollywood film Blended.
  • In December 2018, during the first Test against Pakistan, Steyn became the leading wicket taker for South Africa in Test cricket, previously held by all-rounder and former-captain Shaun Pollock.On 5 August 2019, Steyn announced his retirement from Test cricket, to focus on limited-overs cricket.

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