Top 5 death bowlers in ODI cricket today

1. Dale Steyn (South Africa)

No list of death bowlers is complete without the speedster from South Africa, who is part of the bottomless and endless quiver of fast bowling arrows the Rainbow Nation possesses.

At express pace, it is very much difficult to exert control over line, length and accuracy. Steyn, however, has been able to do so with great success. Not only that, he is also able to move the ball away from the right handed batsmen at great speed, and his liberal use of bouncers and short-pitched deliveries have troubled many willow wielders around the world.

Dale does tend to bowl full tosses at times in the Twenty20 format, but in ODIs, he can be very unplayable when batsmen are trying to raise the tempo. With Morne Morkel and Marchant de Lange for company, the Steyn gun always comes out blazing at full power, taking out one batsman after the other.

The Proteas have unearthed a gem – a true gem of a bowler!

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