Like day turns to night, Dale Steyn crushed the spirit of Pakistan's immunity with lifework-best match figures at the Wanderers as South Africa wrapped up a directing 211-run triumph and in the procedure AB de Villiers equalled the planet record for rejections by a wicketkeeper. Steyn, unavoidably, processed an additional classy spell with the second new ball, and continued to bowl the final part of the morning, to end with 11 for 60 in the Test.
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| Dale Steyn takes his career best 11 wickets in a match |
Misbah-ul-Haq and Asad Shafiq conveyed their fifth-wicket stand to 127 yet after that there was not considerably more resistance from Pakistan's flatter request. Steyn bowled a 10.4-over spell, a considerable deliberation for a strike bowler, and his match figures set him fifth on the record of shabbiest 11-wicket pulls in Test cricket, the best since Sir Richard Hadlee in 1976.
Out of date, de Villiers likewise had a morning to recall as he equalled Jack Russell's planet record of rejections in a Test match which had likewise returned on this ground in 1995. He moreover ended up being the first wicketkeeper to take 10 gets and score a hundred in a Test. The double part is beginning to rest all the more effortlessly on his shoulders, granted that his bowlers are assisting by not keeping him in the field for too long.
Continuing on 183 for 4, Misbah and Shafiq had five overs to face with the old ball which offered a couple scoring chances however they constantly knew the danger that was approaching around the corner. It took Steyn into just his second over before he recognized Shafiq's edge as the batsman looked the ball to second slip off an open front side where Jacques Kallis took a flat possibility.
As the best strike bowlers do, Steyn pressed on to get the colossal wickets and in his afterward over processed an additional gorgeous outswinger which brushed Misbah's edge to end an unyielding innings from which partners might as well regard more than enough lessons.
Steyn's associate-in-wrongdoing, Vernon Philander, then nipped in with his second when Sarfraz Ahmed dragged a ball into his stumps when attempting to withdraw the bat. Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal opposed quickly before Morne Morkel generated a raising short conveyance which took Ajmal's glove. Morkel's front foot was again exceptionally near the forefront and he was soon denied a different scalp by over-going when Junaid Khan was knocked down some pins swinging to leg.
Steyn's long spell, an a sound representative for his stamina and heart, carried his tenth wicket when Gul top-edged a leg-side toil, which in addition furnished de Villiers with his record-equalling get, granted that it required the DRS to topple the first ever choice. Another planet record, however, simply evaded him as the last wicket had a place singularly to Steyn when he trapped Junaid lbw.
It finished an additional clinical presentation from South Africa, after an opening day when they had been put under some force by Pakistan's bowlers. Again it was the home side's particular ambush that has made sunlight between them and the restriction. Pakistan overcame any and all hardships a little second time around, yet could be trusting for additional tranquil conditions when they arrive at Newlands.
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