ZA Cricket

In 2012, Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers represented the absolute peak of cricket. Steyn was in the midst of a six-year run as the unquestioned number one bowler in the world, while de Villiers had established himself as possibly the number one white ball batsman in the world. But, being teammates at the national level, and even domestically in South African franchise cricket, the opportunities for the best practitioners in their sport to go head to head were few and far between. On one fateful autumn day in the IPL, though, Steyn and de Villiers went mano-a-mano, and de Villiers left no doubt as to who was the big bull in the Kraal