Most successful bowlers for South Africa across all 3 formats

T20 internationals

Dale Steyn (2007 – present)

Dale Steyn boasts of an economy rate of only 6.71 in T20 internationals

58 wickets at 17.40, Best: 4/9

4W – 2, Economy – 6.71

Dale Steyn brought everything which a team could ask for: pace, bounce, seam and swing. While he was skilful enough to shine across all three formats, the venomous fast bowler is so far South Africa's most successful bowler in the shortest format of the game. Not to forget, Steyn is also just three wickets away from eclipsing Shaun Pollock's haul of 421 Test wickets and becoming his country's leading wicket-taker in five-day cricket.

Over to T20 cricket, Steyn's expert pace, as well as sharp slower balls, have won him franchise contracts from multiple T20 leagues - he has a staggering economy rate of merely 6.71 and had famously defended only 7 off the last over against New Zealand in the 2014 T20 World Cup. Though Steyn last played a T20 international in 2016, he remains as effective as earlier, though the only matter of repeated injuries have plagued him from representing South Africa more often in the last two years.