He does consider the current Indian batting line-up a formidable one but South Africa’s world number one pacer Dale Steyn on Tuesday said nobody comes close to being the nightmare that the recently-r
He does consider the current Indian batting line-up a formidable one but South Africa’s world number one pacer Dale Steyn on Tuesday said nobody comes close to being the nightmare that the recently-retired Virender Sehwag was in his prime.
The bowler, whose lethal pace is intimidating for most batsmen around the world, said he always found the going tough against an on-song Sehwag. “In the past times that I have played here, I have bowled against guys like Virender Sehwag, that guy was a nightmare. He scored 300 in Chennai and if you missed him by a small margin, he would smoke you out,” the 32-year-old said.
Steyn said even now India have a power-packed batting line-up “but not someone like Sehwag who would blaze right from word go.”
On the series ahead, Steyn said: “It’s not rocket science, if you have got a guy like Sachin (Tendulkar) and you bowl a top of stump to him, he will hit you through the point, when you bowl it to Murali Vijay, he will probably hit you through the covers, so it’s important to know where you want the fielder to be positioned. The delivery stays the same, but the batsman’s shots will change,” he explained. “So, it’s about getting into his head a little bit.”
