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Dale Steyn stats

Data through 3 March 2021Last updated 3 March 2021

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 17 August 2005 to 3 March 2021. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Dale Steyn played 90 Tests, 124 ODIs, 46 T20Is for South Africa in the data, between 2005 and 2021. With the ball, the best return was 431 wickets in Tests at an average of 22.42 and an economy rate of 3.22.

International matches

260

Tests 90 · ODIs 124 · T20Is 46

International runs

1,611

0 hundreds

International wickets

686

29 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

147

225 runs

Best bowling

7/51

Test

Teams played for

South Africa 2006–2020 · 258Sunrisers Hyderabad 2013–2015 · 37Royal Challengers Bengaluru 2008–2020 · 33Deccan Chargers 2011–2012 · 24Cape Town Blitz 2018–2019 · 17Hampshire 2018 · 12Jamaica Tallawahs 2016 · 7Glamorgan 2016 · 5Melbourne Stars 2019–2020 · 4Titans 2017 · 4Islamabad United 2020 · 4Quetta Gladiators 2021 · 3

BattingBowling

Dale Steyn batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
Test	90	114	24	1,226	76	13.62	2,781	44.1	2	14	121	35
ODI	124	51	12	365	60	9.36	562	64.9	1	8	35	9
T20I	46	11	5	20	5*	3.33	25	80.0	0	2	2	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	147	50	25	225	19*	9.00	221	101.8	0	6	19	4
First-class	5	7	1	65	25	10.83	113	57.5	0	2	11	1
List A	3	3	2	8	6	8.00	7	114.3	0	0	1	0

Runs per year

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Dale Steyn: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2005	4
2006	51
2007	83
2008	180
2009	153
2010	200
2011	260
2012	101
2013	205
2014	247
2015	105
2016	34
2017	0
2018	231
2019	48
2020	7
2021	0

Year-by-year batting (48 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	50
2005	ODI	2	4	2.00	26.7	3	0
2006	Test	10	51	7.29	27.6	13	0
2007	T20I	1	1	–	100.0	1	0
2007	Test	8	82	11.71	65.1	33	0
2008	ODI	4	15	15.00	68.2	6	0
2008	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	2	2.00	40.0	1	0
2008	Test	11	163	16.30	44.2	76	1
2009	ODI	4	30	10.00	111.1	17	0
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	0	0.00	0.0	0	0
2009	T20I	1	1	1.00	50.0	1	0
2009	Test	9	122	13.56	42.7	47	0
2010	ODI	4	37	12.33	119.4	35	0
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	13	3.25	76.5	8	0
2010	T20I	1	5	5.00	83.3	5	0
2010	Test	13	145	18.12	37.9	39	0
2011	ODI	8	55	7.86	57.3	20	0
2011	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	36	9.00	102.9	13	0
2011	Test	8	169	33.80	50.9	43	0
2012	ODI	3	5	2.50	38.5	3	0
2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	19	3.80	90.5	7	0
2012	T20I	1	0	–	–	0	0
2012	Test	12	77	6.42	30.3	26	0
2013	ODI	6	30	5.00	42.9	15	0
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	53	26.50	147.2	18	0
2013	T20I	1	1	1.00	33.3	1	0
2013	Test	10	121	17.29	42.3	44	0
2014	ODI	8	60	10.00	57.7	23	0
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	22	7.33	84.6	12	0
2014	T20I	3	6	3.00	85.7	5	0
2014	Test	10	159	19.88	60.2	58	1
2015	ODI	7	56	9.33	71.8	16	0
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	20	20.00	153.8	19	0
2015	Test	6	29	4.83	29.3	17	0
2016	ODI	1	6	–	120.0	6	0
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	9	9.00	112.5	7	0
2016	Test	3	19	9.50	63.3	13	0
2018	First-class	7	65	10.83	57.5	25	0
2018	List A	3	8	8.00	114.3	6	0
2018	ODI	3	67	33.50	67.7	60	1
2018	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	36	18.00	109.1	15	0
2018	Test	7	55	11.00	61.8	23	0
2019	ODI	1	0	0.00	0.0	0	0
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	13	–	86.7	8	0
2019	T20I	1	1	–	33.3	1	0
2019	Test	7	34	8.50	43.6	15	0
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	2	2.00	28.6	1	0
2020	T20I	2	5	5.00	166.7	5	0
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	0	–	0.0	0	0

Dale Steyn bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w	Mdns
Test	165	18,007	9,661	431	7/51	11/60	22.42	3.22	41.8	53	26	644
ODI	123	6,195	5,039	193	6/39	–	26.11	4.88	32.1	7	3	70
T20I	46	997	1,169	62	4/9	–	18.85	7.04	16.1	2	0	3
T20 (leagues & domestic)	146	3,312	3,774	172	4/18	–	21.94	6.84	19.3	2	0	11
First-class	8	855	382	20	5/66	7/71	19.10	2.68	42.8	2	1	30
List A	3	156	170	3	1/34	–	56.67	6.54	52.0	0	0	1

Wickets per year

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Dale Steyn: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2005	2
2006	25
2007	57
2008	97
2009	66
2010	89
2011	67
2012	77
2013	104
2014	82
2015	50
2016	42
2017	6
2018	59
2019	44
2020	10
2021	4

Year-by-year bowling (53 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2005	ODI	2	2	21.00	4.13	1/2
2006	ODI	2	1	90.00	11.25	1/58
2006	Test	10	24	30.58	4.04	5/47
2007	ODI	4	8	22.50	5.62	3/65
2007	T20I	2	5	5.20	3.71	4/9
2007	Test	14	44	17.48	3.53	6/49
2008	ODI	10	11	38.36	5.09	4/16
2008	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	10	25.20	6.63	3/27
2008	T20I	1	2	9.00	6.00	2/18
2008	Test	24	74	20.01	3.35	6/72
2009	ODI	15	26	27.27	5.09	4/27
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	2	31.00	6.89	1/21
2009	T20I	11	16	19.69	7.68	3/38
2009	Test	9	22	32.86	3.53	4/56
2010	ODI	8	10	41.30	5.82	3/37
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	15	27.07	6.88	3/18
2010	T20I	6	4	41.50	6.92	1/18
2010	Test	20	60	21.42	3.29	7/51
2011	ODI	14	25	19.32	4.37	5/50
2011	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	14	21.36	6.57	3/16
2011	Test	10	28	19.57	3.07	5/73
2012	ODI	9	10	32.10	4.36	2/24
2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	18	15.83	6.11	3/8
2012	T20I	8	10	11.80	4.72	3/22
2012	Test	19	39	29.72	3.04	5/56
2013	ODI	13	27	15.85	3.66	6/39
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	17	19	20.21	5.66	3/11
2013	T20I	4	7	11.00	5.50	3/15
2013	Test	18	51	17.67	2.52	6/8
2014	ODI	14	22	26.55	5.07	4/34
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	16	12	38.42	7.20	2/20
2014	T20I	5	9	17.00	7.98	4/17
2014	Test	15	39	19.56	3.12	6/34
2015	ODI	19	30	27.30	4.99	3/27
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	3	56.67	8.95	2/38
2015	Test	7	17	21.82	2.92	4/70
2016	ODI	4	5	50.80	6.99	2/65
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	23	12.65	6.56	4/18
2016	T20I	4	3	43.33	9.29	2/32
2016	Test	4	11	13.91	2.78	5/33
2017	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	6	13.50	5.79	2/16
2018	First-class	8	20	19.10	2.68	5/66
2018	List A	3	3	56.67	6.54	1/34
2018	ODI	5	12	11.83	3.34	3/29
2018	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	17	19.71	6.66	2/21
2018	Test	7	7	47.14	3.36	2/34
2019	ODI	4	4	38.00	5.07	2/43
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	22	15.32	7.49	3/10
2019	T20I	2	3	19.67	8.43	2/34
2019	Test	8	15	29.60	3.63	4/48
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	7	44.71	8.09	2/16
2020	T20I	3	3	35.67	8.92	2/31
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	4	24.50	9.19	2/44

Dale Steyn against each team

vs Australia vs India vs England vs Pakistan vs Sri Lanka vs New Zealand vs West Indies vs Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	50
Australia	Test	23	294	15.47	40.2	76	1
West Indies	Test	8	180	30.00	83.7	58	1
England	Test	13	164	16.40	42.9	47	0
India	Test	20	162	11.57	41.8	44	0
Sri Lanka	Test	18	156	9.75	38.8	43	0
Pakistan	Test	15	134	13.40	41.0	27	0
New Zealand	Test	12	106	10.60	39.6	25	0
Bangladesh	Test	4	11	2.75	22.4	7	0
India	ODI	11	89	8.90	89.0	35	0
Zimbabwe	ODI	3	74	37.00	61.7	60	1
England	ODI	8	67	16.75	77.9	20	0
Australia	ODI	10	42	6.00	66.7	12	0
Pakistan	ODI	6	42	7.00	52.5	16	0
New Zealand	ODI	5	14	2.80	36.8	8	0
West Indies	ODI	4	9	9.00	39.1	6	0
Rajasthan Royals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	38	12.67	152.0	18	0
Mumbai Indians	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	33	5.50	94.3	19	0
Kolkata Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	22	7.33	122.2	13	0
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	20	5.00	76.9	14	0
Delhi Capitals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	19	9.50	111.8	9	0
Punjab Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	16	16.00	61.5	12	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
Australia	Test	28	70	27.47	3.56	5/67
New Zealand	Test	23	68	16.04	2.91	6/49
India	Test	23	65	21.54	3.09	7/51
Pakistan	Test	26	59	23.29	3.11	6/8
West Indies	Test	16	48	19.62	3.30	6/34
Sri Lanka	Test	21	43	27.81	3.43	5/54
England	Test	16	42	27.74	3.23	5/51
Bangladesh	Test	10	28	17.36	3.18	5/63
Australia	ODI	27	49	26.90	5.39	4/27
India	ODI	18	34	22.44	4.95	5/50
Pakistan	ODI	14	28	19.29	4.25	6/39
West Indies	ODI	13	20	23.60	4.51	3/24
New Zealand	ODI	14	15	38.87	4.60	2/32
Zimbabwe	ODI	7	15	19.20	4.72	3/29
England	ODI	11	10	49.30	5.50	2/24
Sri Lanka	ODI	10	10	35.70	5.51	3/47
Ireland	ODI	3	4	20.50	4.32	2/30
Pakistan	T20I	7	12	12.75	5.88	3/15
New Zealand	T20I	5	9	10.44	4.95	4/17
Sri Lanka	T20I	5	8	17.38	8.18	2/10
Australia	T20I	7	8	26.12	8.04	3/38
England	T20I	10	8	39.50	9.03	2/29
West Indies	T20I	4	7	11.43	5.33	4/9
India	T20I	4	3	37.00	7.84	2/25
Delhi Capitals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	16	17.25	6.27	2/11
Mumbai Indians	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	15	24.60	6.71	3/12
Kolkata Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	13	30.85	7.86	3/27
Rajasthan Royals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	13	17.85	5.57	2/16
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	9	39.11	7.33	2/25
Punjab Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	8	43.38	7.89	2/20
Jozi Stars	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	8	16.75	6.70	3/25
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	7	27.71	6.93	3/8
Deccan Chargers	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	7	18.14	5.77	3/18
Paarl Rocks	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	6	19.33	7.73	2/21
Durban Heat	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	5	22.80	7.12	2/23
Pune Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	5	28.80	7.26	3/11
Knights	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	3	18.67	5.09	2/20

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Kingsmead	19	253	14.88	47
Newlands	25	215	13.44	32
The Wanderers Stadium	19	138	12.55	41
SuperSport Park	17	135	11.25	25
St George's Park	11	123	24.60	58
Melbourne Cricket Ground	4	78	26.00	76
Mangaung Oval	2	61	30.50	60
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium	10	60	10.00	19
Lord's	5	58	19.33	26
Sawai Mansingh Stadium	2	53	53.00	35

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
Newlands	52	102	22.52	3.40
SuperSport Park	38	90	19.58	3.93
The Wanderers Stadium	34	70	23.26	3.89
Kingsmead	28	67	20.07	3.48
St George's Park	19	40	20.98	4.10
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium	24	27	21.19	6.30
Harare Sports Club	8	21	17.19	3.63
Melbourne Cricket Ground	7	19	18.89	4.16
The Rose Bowl	10	19	25.26	3.44
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	12	19	27.89	4.52

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	–	–	–	–	2244	97	6.44
T20	Middle	10	19	52.6	3	870	40	6.61
T20	Death	235	227	103.5	28	1195	97	7.92
ODI	Powerplay	–	–	–	–	2666	50	4.56
ODI	Middle	149	262	56.9	12	2374	67	4.47
ODI	Death	216	300	72.0	27	1155	76	6.45

How Dale Steyn was dismissed

Caught81 (49%)
Bowled50 (30%)
Run out16 (10%)
Lbw12 (7%)
Stumped5 (3%)
Caught and bowled3 (2%)

How Dale Steyn took wickets

Caught585
Bowled182
Lbw93
Caught and bowled19
Hit wicket2

Last 20 innings

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Dale Steyn: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
16 Dec 2018	15
26 Dec 2018	23
3 Jan 2019	13
11 Jan 2019	2
11 Jan 2019	0
27 Jan 2019	0
13 Feb 2019	15
13 Feb 2019	1
21 Feb 2019	3
21 Feb 2019	0
19 Mar 2019	1
21 Apr 2019	0
10 Nov 2019	5
20 Nov 2019	8
12 Feb 2020	5
21 Feb 2020	0
24 Sep 2020	1
10 Dec 2020	1
26 Feb 2021	0
2 Mar 2021	0

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
2 Mar 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Islamabad United	0*	0	not out	National Stadium, Karachi
26 Feb 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Peshawar Zalmi	0*	2	not out	National Stadium, Karachi
10 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Galle Gladiators	1	5	bowled	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
24 Sep 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Punjab Kings	1*	2	not out	Dubai International Cricket Stadium
21 Feb 2020	T20I	Australia	0	1	caught	The Wanderers Stadium
12 Feb 2020	T20I	England	5*	2	not out	Buffalo Park
20 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Nelson Mandela Bay Giants	8*	6	not out	St George's Park
10 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Paarl Rocks	5*	9	not out	Boland Park
21 Apr 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Chennai Super Kings	0*	0	not out	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
19 Mar 2019	T20I	Sri Lanka	1*	3	not out	Newlands
21 Feb 2019	Test	Sri Lanka	0	4	caught	St George's Park
21 Feb 2019	Test	Sri Lanka	3*	11	not out	St George's Park
13 Feb 2019	Test	Sri Lanka	1	6	bowled	Kingsmead
13 Feb 2019	Test	Sri Lanka	15	26	bowled	Kingsmead
27 Jan 2019	ODI	Pakistan	0	2	bowled	The Wanderers Stadium
11 Jan 2019	Test	Pakistan	0*	4	not out	The Wanderers Stadium
11 Jan 2019	Test	Pakistan	2*	17	not out	The Wanderers Stadium
3 Jan 2019	Test	Pakistan	13	10	caught	Newlands
26 Dec 2018	Test	Pakistan	23	23	caught	SuperSport Park
16 Dec 2018	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Jozi Stars	15*	9	not out	Newlands

Last 20 bowling innings

Most recent bowling innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Figures	Overs	Mdns	Ground
3 Mar 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Multan Sultans	1/34	3.4	0	National Stadium, Karachi
2 Mar 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Islamabad United	1/20	3	0	National Stadium, Karachi
26 Feb 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Peshawar Zalmi	2/44	4	0	National Stadium, Karachi
10 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Galle Gladiators	0/23	4	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
9 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Jaffna Stallions	2/33	4	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
28 Oct 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	0/43	4	0	Zayed Cricket Stadium
24 Sep 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Punjab Kings	0/57	4	0	Dubai International Cricket Stadium
21 Sep 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Sunrisers Hyderabad	1/33	3.4	0	Dubai International Cricket Stadium
8 Mar 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Multan Sultans	0/14	1	0	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
7 Mar 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Peshawar Zalmi	0/15	2	0	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
4 Mar 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Lahore Qalandars	1/18	4	0	Gaddafi Stadium
1 Mar 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Karachi Kings	1/37	4	1	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
21 Feb 2020	T20I	Australia	2/31	4	0	The Wanderers Stadium
16 Feb 2020	T20I	England	0/43	4	0	SuperSport Park
12 Feb 2020	T20I	England	1/33	4	0	Buffalo Park
4 Jan 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Melbourne Renegades	2/16	4	0	Melbourne Cricket Ground
2 Jan 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Sydney Thunder	0/24	4	0	Sydney Showground Stadium
30 Dec 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Hobart Hurricanes	2/12	2	0	Aurora Stadium
27 Dec 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Adelaide Strikers	1/29	3	0	Carrara Oval
1 Dec 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Tshwane Spartans	3/10	4	0	Newlands

Batter vs bowler matchups

Batters Dale Steyn bowled to most

Michael Clarke vs Dale Steyn494 balls
David Warner vs Dale Steyn461 balls
Sachin Tendulkar vs Dale Steyn418 balls
Younis Khan vs Dale Steyn415 balls
Ian Bell vs Dale Steyn409 balls
Alastair Cook vs Dale Steyn390 balls
MS Dhoni vs Dale Steyn340 balls
Misbah-ul-Haq vs Dale Steyn338 balls
Kumar Sangakkara vs Dale Steyn336 balls
Shivnarine Chanderpaul vs Dale Steyn334 balls
Virender Sehwag vs Dale Steyn334 balls
Brendon McCullum vs Dale Steyn334 balls

Frequently asked questions

How many wickets has Dale Steyn taken in Tests?

431 wickets in 165 innings at an average of 22.42, economy 3.22, best figures 7/51.

How many wickets has Dale Steyn taken in ODIs?

193 wickets in 123 innings at an average of 26.11, economy 4.88, best figures 6/39.

How many runs has Dale Steyn scored in Tests?

1,226 runs in 114 innings (90 matches) at an average of 13.62 and a strike rate of 44.1, in the data from 2006 to 2019.

How many runs has Dale Steyn scored in ODIs?

365 runs in 51 innings (124 matches) at an average of 9.36 and a strike rate of 64.9, in the data from 2005 to 2019.

How many runs has Dale Steyn scored in T20Is?

20 runs in 11 innings (46 matches) at an average of 3.33 and a strike rate of 80.0, in the data from 2007 to 2020.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.