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Steyn's deadly combo of swing and speed

Dale Steyn has had a phenomenal year in Test cricket and is now getting ready for his first tour of England

Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
Dale Steyn has had a phenomenal year in Test cricket and is now getting ready for his first tour of England. Bigstarcricket.com caught up with him for a chat.
Everybody can bowl the ball 135kmh and put it in the right areas. You can go and get a school kid nowadays to do that. But if anyone can run in and bowl 145 or 150k’s is something special especially if you can swing the ball at the same time. Pace is definitely my biggest weapon but pace combined with the swing is deadly. And we have a few guys who can do that like Makhaya (Ntini) and Morne Morkel. It’s important to me that I am always outwitting the guy next to me and staying a step above those guys because it raises the bar all the time. It’s healthy competition within the team. The more they are pushing the better I have to become so it doesn’t allow you to relax, it means I am always fighting for a spot. I have always got to be better than the guy next to me.

Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo