News about Dale Steyn

STUART BROAD: Pope is not one of the extroverts in the dressing room. He's just a nice guy, who is perhaps the best walking his dog in the countryside, but he is also tough, as you can see him running back out to field in last summer's Ashes despite losing his shoulder. His coworkers also have a lot of respect for his abilities as a batter. I was one that bowled him in the nets because he was batting three or me getting the new ball meant we'd often be paired up against each other.

Veteran Australian opener David Warner will close the curtain on his illustrious, if not chequered Test cricket career with a farewell match on the ground where it all started on January 2, the SCG

XCLUSIVE INTERVIEW By AADAM PATEL: Heinrich Klaasen, who is shielded from India's hustle and bustle, sits down poolside at South Africa's team hotel. Klaasen's international fame means that there is no way this interview will take place in the hotel lobby. He says he had to return after five minutes in the shopping mall next door because of supporters. Klaasen's fame here is based on his six-hitting ability, making him one of the world's most offensive batters on current form. It has cemented his place as one of the IPL's most valuable players, with him winning a 61-ball century in Mumbai.

Dane van Niekerk, the cricket legend, has taken a scathing shot at Cricket South Africa (CSA), saying she'didn't eat' and was 'killing herself for six weeks' in order to cap the country's home World Cup. Since being controversially barred from the T20 World Cup in February, the 29-year-old all-rounder, who has a stellar resume on international stage and has gained titles in the WBBL and the United Kingdom, was effectively forced into retirement. She has argued that CSA ignored her medical problems and that her dismissal was motivated by her personal qualities, not by on-field results.

NEIL MANTHORP AT LORD'S: Makhaya Ntini was one of the first five members of a South African fast bowling attack in 2008, with Lord's rookies Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel as the fourth member, which was said to be as potent as the great West Indian quartets of the 1990s. It was overhyped, and it had an effect on Steyn and Morkel, who were bowled poorly, who were struggling to live up to expectations. Mark Boucher was in that squad and remembers it well. As Steyn and Morkel had been told to do, he encouraged Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, and Marco Jansen to treasure and 'absorb' Lord's rather than 'look around and get over it' this year.'