5 reasons why Dale Steyn should retire from limited overs cricket

#3 Form- A roadblock

‘Form is temporary, but class is permanent’- Dale Steyn’s class is hardly questioned, but form has been a major concern for Steyn over the last couple of years or so. It’s hard to imagine Steyn getting dropped from a limited overs side.

Steyn has a perfect good length delivery that jags away and into batsmen, which’s pretty challenging to counter, but the scenario changes while bowling in the death overs. Slog overs require Yorkers to be hurled in at regular intervals and Steyn has struggled to cope with the challenge.

The result is that batsmen measure him out to spank him all around the park. In the tri-series against West Indies and Australia in June, Kyle Abbott was picked ahead of him. Also, he was sidelined by the Sunrisers Hyderabad team for the most part of IPL 2016.