Dale ends Jamaica sojourn in stellar fashion

22 July 2016 - 10:19 By Telford Vice

"My last game for Jamaica tonight," Dale Steyn tweeted on Wednesday. "Come down and scream your heads off at Sabina Park!"

The fans did and Steyn rewarded them with a haul of 4/27 to bowl the Jamaica Tallawahs to victory over the Barbados Tridents.Steyn took all his wickets in 19 balls, removing Kieron Pollard and David Wiese three deliveries apart.That, as well as a stand of 127 between Chadwick Walton and Kumar Sangakkara, sealed Jamaica's place in the semifinals.Wednesday's performance was Steyn's best at this year's Caribbean Premier League and put him one scalp behind Sohail Tanvir as the tournament's leading wicket-taker.In 25.5 overs Steyn took 12 wickets at an average of 14.66.So why was this his last game for the franchise?Because his contractual obligations to Cricket SA demand his attendance at the organisation's awards dinner in Johannesburg on Tuesday.South Africans won't complain that Steyn is on his way home in one piece and, apparently, firing like he hasn't done for months.They will hope that the injuries that took him out of the equation for most of SA's Test series against India and England last season are unhappy memories rather than signs of things to come for a bowler who, at 33 years old, the last dozen of them spent roaring in like a man possessed by his own gift, can't have much time left at the top. ..

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