- Born
- Birth nameDale Willem Steyn
- Nicknames
- The Phalaborwa Express
- Hoolio
- Steyn Gun
- The Steyn remover
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Dale Steyn is a premier cricketer for the South African national team and various professional cricket franchises world over. He has maintained the Proteas' tradition of producing some of the world's great fast bowlers and has succeeded the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini as the leader of the South African attack.
He took more than 80 wickets in the period between October, 2007, and August, 2008, to be named the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year for 2008. It also earned him the No. 1 ranking, a position he has held ever since, while he has been named in the ICC Test Team of the Year for the past 4 years.
He also has the highest strike rate (41) of any bowler who has taken more than 200 wickets. He was the fourth fastest to 200 wickets in terms of matches played and the second quickest to 250 in his 49th match, behind the legendary Dennis Lillee who took one match fewer.
One of the many highlights of his career came when he returned career best figures of 7/51 to bowl South Africa to an innings victory over India at Nagpur in 2010. He also became one of the few foreign fast bowlers to take 10 wickets in a Test match in India.
His match-winning performance at Melbourne in 2008 when he made 76 and shared a partnership of 180 for the 9th wicket with JP Duminy and took 10 wickets in the match is one of South Africa's greatest all-round performances of all time.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseJeanne Kietzmann(2011 - present)
- He is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, subsequently deeming him one of the greatest cricketers to ever play the game.
- Dale Steyn is a South African cricketer who plays all formats of the game.
- Steyn achieved a tally of 78 wickets at an average of 16.24 in Season 2007/08 and was subsequently rewarded with the prestigious ICC 2008 Test Cricketer of the Year Award. He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year in 2013. He was named Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for the year 2013 in 2014 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.
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