5 talking points from all the Boxing Day cricket

#2 Scorchers burn through the Strikers' batting line-up

BBL - Scorchers v Strikers

BBL's most successful team had a shaky start to the tournament when they had lost both of their away games. But the homecoming could not have been sweeter for the Perth Scorchers as their pacers set the 'Furnace' ablaze with a masterful show of T20 bowling.

All five fast bowlers in the Perth team had something to show in the wickets column as they brought down a heavy and in-form Adelaide Strikers batting line-up.

The bowlers were fast, accurate, and consistent as they wrapped up Strikers for 88 runs, setting up their batsmen for a straight-forward chase.

It was Jason Behrendorff who started the party for Perth sending back Weatherald and captain Colin Ingram. Young Jyhe Richardson took the reigns from Jason in the middle overs as his spectacular bowling earned him 3 wickets. Andrew Tye then claimed his stake in the latter overs and picked up 2 wickets while David Willey and Nathan Coulter Nile took 1 wicket apiece.

It is fair to say the Scorchers bowlers handed themselves their maiden win of the season.

#1 Steyn becomes SA's leading wicket-taker in Tests

1st Castle Lager Test match: South Africa v Pakistan, Day 1

On a day brimming with cricket, it was Dale Steyn who took away the biggest honours as he became South Africa's leading wicket-taker in Test cricket.

The Steyn-Gun accounted for its record-breaking 422nd victim as Steyn dished out his signature away-swinging delivery on the off-stump which has defeated some of the best batsmen to grace cricket during the South African's 14-year long career.

Dale Steyn was the second-fastest bowler to take 400 wickets when he achieved the feat in his 80th Test in 2015. But a host of injuries slowed the Protea pacer down as he looked to surpass Shaun Pollock's tally of 421 wickets.

Coming into the first Test vs Pakistan, Steyn needed only one wicket to claim the record and it took him only 19 balls to have Fakhar Zaman edge one to Dean Elgar in the slips.

Steyn's 422 wickets come in 89 matches at an astonishing average of 22.60.