You would not expect an Australian to say this: "Dale Steyn is just coming back from an injury but he’s the class act that all fast bowlers of this generation aspire to be like." Or this: "They aspire to have the record that he has and the longevity he has had." Or even this: "That’s the sign of a champion‚ that you’re around for long enough to be classified as that. Dale has done that." But all of the above did in fact come from an Australian — Adam Gilchrist in conversation with the website cricket.com.au. Not that Steyn is just any Saffer. Not with 416 wickets to his name. Another half-dozen scalps and he will surpass Shaun Pollock as SA’s most prolific Test wicket-taker. Gilchrist played the last of his 12 Tests against SA more than two-and-a-half years before the fast bowler tangled with the Australians in a Test for the first time. That was in December 2008 when he was part of SA’s six-wicket win at the Waca, the initial success in their first series win in Australia. Almost f...
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