Steyn sparks SA resurrection

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Galle

If the fiery phoenix needs to adopt a human form, Dale Steyn is its man. Not for the first time, the flames of his and SA’s resurrection were born in the ashes of the opposition’s ascendency on the third day of the first test against Sri Lanka in Galle yesterday.

Steyn claimed 3/8 in a superb spell after tea, giving him figures of 5/50 at stumps – which came with Sri Lanka on 283/9, or still 172 runs away from SA’s first innings of 455/9 declared.

With that, Steyn...