Steyn sends England crashing in final test
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January 15, 2010, Friday
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SOUTH Africa paceman Dale Steyn demolished England yesterday as the tourists were bowled out for 180 inside two sessions in the fourth test in Johannesburg yesterday.
Steyn finished with figures of 5-51 as England, which had slumped to 39-4 after a poor start to the morning session, lost its last six wickets in the space of 17.2 overs.
Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood had helped steady the ship by putting on 76 for the fifth wicket but the latter fell 27 balls after lunch for 47, sparking an England late-order collapse. In reply, South Africa had progressed to 16-0.
Debutant Ryan McLaren grabbed the key wicket of Collingwood, forcing a leading edge which looped to JP Duminy at point. Collingwood had hit five fours and two sixes in his 61-ball innings.
Bell (35) lasted seven more overs before he was bowled through the gate by a beauty from Steyn, who claimed three more scalps to collect his 12th five-wicket haul in a test innings. His figures in the second session were 4-25 in 6.5 overs.
The other batsmen to fall to Steyn were Matt Prior (14), Ryan Sidebottom (0) and Graeme Swann (27), all of them caught by wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.
Prior gloved an attempted pull, Sidebottom got an outside edge, while Swann attempted a big hit and was caught off an inside edge as he attempted to up the tempo in a breezy last-wicket stand of 25.
The other wicket to fall after lunch was that of Stuart Broad (13) off the bowling of Jacques Kallis.
Earlier, South Africa, which is 0-1 down in the series, had claimed four wickets in the first 10 overs, including England captain Andrew Strauss on the first ball of the day.
It was widely expected that the pitch would be lively one, so it was a surprise when Strauss decided to bat first after winning the toss. He did not last long, turning a Steyn delivery to the leg side where short-leg fielder Hashim Amla took a brilliant one-handed catch low to his right. When Jonathan Trott (5) was trapped LBW by Morkel 11 balls later, after an uncharacteristically aggressive stay, England was in trouble at 7-2.
Steyn finished with figures of 5-51 as England, which had slumped to 39-4 after a poor start to the morning session, lost its last six wickets in the space of 17.2 overs.
Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood had helped steady the ship by putting on 76 for the fifth wicket but the latter fell 27 balls after lunch for 47, sparking an England late-order collapse. In reply, South Africa had progressed to 16-0.
Debutant Ryan McLaren grabbed the key wicket of Collingwood, forcing a leading edge which looped to JP Duminy at point. Collingwood had hit five fours and two sixes in his 61-ball innings.
Bell (35) lasted seven more overs before he was bowled through the gate by a beauty from Steyn, who claimed three more scalps to collect his 12th five-wicket haul in a test innings. His figures in the second session were 4-25 in 6.5 overs.
The other batsmen to fall to Steyn were Matt Prior (14), Ryan Sidebottom (0) and Graeme Swann (27), all of them caught by wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.
Prior gloved an attempted pull, Sidebottom got an outside edge, while Swann attempted a big hit and was caught off an inside edge as he attempted to up the tempo in a breezy last-wicket stand of 25.
The other wicket to fall after lunch was that of Stuart Broad (13) off the bowling of Jacques Kallis.
Earlier, South Africa, which is 0-1 down in the series, had claimed four wickets in the first 10 overs, including England captain Andrew Strauss on the first ball of the day.
It was widely expected that the pitch would be lively one, so it was a surprise when Strauss decided to bat first after winning the toss. He did not last long, turning a Steyn delivery to the leg side where short-leg fielder Hashim Amla took a brilliant one-handed catch low to his right. When Jonathan Trott (5) was trapped LBW by Morkel 11 balls later, after an uncharacteristically aggressive stay, England was in trouble at 7-2.
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