South Africa vs Pakistan, 1st Test at Johannesburg, , Feb 01 2013 - Ball by Ball Commentary

It's youth day at the Wanderers, they have bused in a whole lot of school kids

and they are all singing now.

WaKXx: "Steyn goes 2 up over Amla."

Sifiso: "Dale Steyn, you beauty! 11 for 60. What a bowling performance. The best bowler in the world by quite a mile!"

South Africa utterly dominant in this game. Pakistan seemed to have had a decent first day, when Junaid Khan showed his ability to snake the ball around, but Steyn and Co demolished Pakistan for 49 on the second morning, after which there was no coming back. AB de Villiers finished the game with a century and a record-equalling 11 catches, but no doubts over who the star of the show was - Dale Steyn finished off the match with a lung-busting spell of 11 overs, to complete another five-for and hand South Africa a 211-run victory.

AhmadSaeed: "Its no wonder that Pakistan have lost to the very good side. But that 2nd day morning storm was the time when we lost the game, rest of the time we were OK. There are some positives to be taken, and still don't understand why Rahat was playing ahead of Irfan and Ehsan Adil."

Sharjeel: "A bit sad over the lbw. 'AB' should have broken the world record of most caught behinds alongside with Steyn's 5. Would have been icing on the cake."

Oliver Jones: "Steyn is just ridiculous. Clearly the best bowler in the world at the moment. Anderson's immense at swing bowling, but there's no doubt that when Steyn's in the groove, he can just downright bully teams into giving up and losing their wicket. He's got a brute of a bouncer, vicious swing, precision accuracy and the look of a man who will get you out, even if it takes all day. Anderson doesn't have the aggression for that."

Farhan: "Cape town has quite a spinning pitch. We'll play well there. Nevertheless SA showed why they deserve the No1. Pak Batting improved in the 2nd innings. Good fight back. Overall good test cricket."

Post-match presentation:

Misbah-ul-Haq: "I think that was a great spell of innings, that hurt us really. I think such a big batting line-up, we got them 250- something, we could have scored 300 runs or equal to them, this could have been a good Test match. I think everybody knows that once we can see off the new ball, we can score runs, I think in the next match you will see that. They are the No. 1 side, but they have top-class bowlers, top-class batsmen, we can learn a lot from them."

Graeme Smith: "You always get a bit nervous in milestone game, people could say that you are not totally focused. We knew we wanted to bat first, we were looking at 250-odd, but we left ourselves down a little bit. But we knew the cracks would come into effect. Blessed to have Steyn in the attack, No. 1 bowler in the world, he has been helped Morkel and Philander. Hopefully AB has silenced the critics with his keeping, our intensity on the third morning was very good. We've got two Tests left this summer, hopefully back in Cape Town the turnout will be amazing. Think I'm going to go home tonight and spend two days in bed to recover from all the emotions, all the support from the fans."

The Man of the Match is Dale Steyn: "I bowled quite nicely (grins), AB's hundred, Biff's 100th Test as captain, the decision to bat on a tough track, that's what this team is about, great performance from the team. I've not been able to pick up wickets at the top in recent times but glad I did it here. I'd like to say I've bowled better in the nets, but this is what counts. We wanted to try and get these wickets as quickly as possible today, the guys pushed hard, there wasn't a lot of chances, we were pumped to try and finish off the game. Things just kind of clicked, the ball just came out nicely, there's not much thinking going on, your natural instinct takes over, I just got the ball in my hand and ran in and bowled."

Omar: "Steyn's such a great guy, that post match presentation with him was a delight to watch. He throws vicious jabs on the field but he is a gentlemen when its all done and dusted. Brilliant."

Vijaypc: "There was once a bowler called Steyn, who made the batsman grimace in pain, "He finishes the game too fast." the broadcasters would lament, hey it aint his fault, he is just quick, accurate and adamant."

And here's our (disgruntled?) reader Abdullah: "well, thanks to cricinfo for not publishing any of my comment. i am so grateful to you guys. if u had them published, i may have been more happy but we don't want that, do we... hahaha."

On that note, this is Siddarth Ravindran signing off. Thanks for all the comments!

Steyn now bowling his 11th over in a row

Pakman: "10 overs in a spell for a out and out pace bowler!! Steyn is the complete package, he has the stamina of Ntini and the pace of Donald and the cleverness of Pollock. Superb performance!! You will not find one Pakistan who is not in awe of Steyn!"

This is the cheapest-ever ten-for by a South African fast bowler

Also, the extra half hour has been taken, which means there's still 40 minutes to lunch.

This is the tenth over in Steyn's spell

Ryan: "Bring on Kallis. If Steyn can't get a 10 fer at least 'Golden Arm' Kallis can get closer to 300."

danny: "@DrKash, I'm sorry, but you cannot mention Anderson in the same breath as Steyn. Steyn is one of the best fast bowlers in history (the numbers speak for themselves). Anderson is merely good."