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Steyn bowls South Africa to victory
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 05 - 02 - 2013

JOHANNESBURG — Dale Steyn's career-best bowling figures propelled South Africa to a comprehensive 211-run victory over Pakistan on day four of the first Test at the Wanderers Monday.
Having set Pakistan an improbable 480-run victory target, South Africa bowled it out for 268 in its second innings, the new ball doing the trick as the visitors lost their final six wickets for 59 runs before the lunch break.
Steyn picked up five second innings wickets to finish with 11 for 60, his fifth 10-wicket haul which also earned him the man-of-the-match award.
“With all the hype going into the game from a personal point of view I felt it was always important we won,” South Africa captain Graeme Smith, celebrating his 100th Test as skipper, told reporters.
“To win so comprehensively was even better.”
In a match of records, South African wicketkeeper AB de Villiers equaled Englishman Jack Russell's world best of 11 dismissals in a Test that came in the same ground in 1995.
Resuming on 183-4, Pakistan had added 26 runs to its total in the morning session before the first wicket fell.
Steyn managed to get a delivery to nip away from Asad Shafiq and the edge was pouched low down by Jacques Kallis at second slip. It brought to an end a fine innings of 56 in which Shafiq kept the South African pace attack at bay for 168 balls.
Shafiq and Misbahul Haq had added 127 for the fifth-wicket, bettering the previous record against South Africa of 107 between the same two batsmen in Abu Dhabi in the 2010-11 season.
Misbah fell in Steyn's next over to a delivery that pitched on off-stump, moved away and caught the edge of the bat for a simple chance to de Villiers. He went for a well-constructed 64.
Sarfraz Ahmed (six) tried to leave a Vernon Philander delivery but only succeeded in getting an inside edge onto the stumps.
Umar Gul (23) and Saeed Ajmal (11) hit some lusty blows but it was only a matter of time before they succumbed, the latter gloving a ball to de Villiers as he tried evading a Morne Morkel bouncer.
Junaid Khan was bowled by Morkel off a no-ball, the second time in this match that a South African over-stepped when picking up a wicket after Vernon Philander did likewise earlier in the innings.
Gul became Steyn's next victim when he played a wild swish at a short ball and was caught by de Villiers. It was originally given not out, but overturned by the third umpire on review. Steyn trapped Junaid Khan leg before for nine, capping a magnificent display of fast bowling that Pakistan will somehow have to counter in the next two Test matches in Cape Town (Feb 14-18) and Centurion (Feb 22-26).
“It is always difficult when you come to South Africa and right now they are the number one side in the world, they have the top bowlers and some of top batsman in the world,” said Pakistan captain Misbahul Haq. — Reuters
Scoreboard
South Africa (1st innings) 253
Pakistan (1st innings) 49
South Africa (2nd innings) 275-3 dec.
Pakistan (2nd innings)
Hafeez c De Villiers b Philander 02
Jamshed c Peterson b Steyn 46
Azhar lbw b Kallis 18
Younis c De Villiers b Morkel 15
Misbah c De Villiers b Steyn 64
Shafiq c Kallis b Steyn 56
Ahmed b Philander 06
Gul c De Villiers b Steyn 23
Ajmal c De Villiers b Morkel 11
Junaid lbw b Steyn 09
Rahat not out 03
Extras (b4, lb4, nb4, w3) 15
Total (100.4 overs) 268
Falls: 1-7 (Hafeez), 2-64 (Jamshed), 3-70 (Azhar), 4-82 (Younis), 5-209 (Shafiq), 6-210 (Misbah), 7-218 (Sarfraz), 8-240 (Ajmal), 9-261 (Gul).
Bowling: Steyn 28.4-10-52-5, Philander 22-3-60-2 (1nb), Morkel 25-7-89-2 (3nb), Kallis 15-5-35-1 (1w), Peterson 10-3-24-0.
Man-of-the-Match: Dale Steyn.


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