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“He proved why he’s been the world’s best bowler for such a long period of time”

South Africa Twenty20 captain Faf du Plessis has admitted that he was extremely impressed with pace bowler Dale Steyn’s match-winning performance against New Zealand in the World Twenty20 on March 24.

Steyn picked up the wickets of Kane Williamson, Corey Anderson, Luke Ronchi and Nathan McCullum to finish with figures of 4-17 in four overs.

New Zealand only needed seven runs to win off the last over, but Steyn proved to be too quick for them to handle.

He even ran Ross Taylor out off the very last ball of the match to hand South Africa a nail-biting two-run win.

“He proved why he’s been the world’s best bowler for such a long period of time, it was a fantastic bowling performance,” du Plessis said. “As a captain to have a guy like that in the team, anything is possible.

“I thought New Zealand got themselves in the position where they should have won the game and something special was going to be required for us to take it away from them and Dale did just that.

“I said anything under eight required would be tough but I backed Dale to do it.

“We got it down to seven, which was a little bit less than I would have liked it but when you start with three dot balls then you feel like you’re right back in it.”