Only one winner in seam v spin

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Perth

POP. Thud. Game over. It was for Dale Steyn at the WACA on Friday, when the stellar fast bowler broke the same shoulder for the second time in less than a year and earned what will probably be six months out of the game. At least.

The moment chilled all who saw Steyn, as visceral an embodiment of the violence of his vocation as can be, reduced to a haunched facsimile of all that.

“I was bowling and felt this pop, or like a thud, in my shoulder,” Steyn said in...