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<h1>Dale Steyn vs Chris Gayle - ICC Cricket World Cup 2015</h1>
Battling South African quick bowler Dale Steyn must figure out how to contain record-breaking West Indian batsman Chris Gayle in Friday`s crunch World Cup clash.
Steyn`s forefront has been blunted at the competition so far with his two matches providing for him aggregate figures of two for 119 from a win over Zimbabwe and a devastating misfortune to India.
Gayle, as well, battled toward the begin of the opposition, making 36 in the thrashing via Ireland and only four in the win over Pakistan.
However he thundered once more to structure with his astounding, record-softening 215 against Zimbabwe up Canberra on Tuesday, the first-ever twofold century at a World Cup.
Presently the spotlight at the Sydney Cricket Ground will be prepared on Steyn, who has just ever rejected Gayle once in their one-day worldwide conflicts.
That came in the first match of five on the eve of the World Cup when Gayle hit a blustery 41 in sodden Durban, yet in a losing reason.
The 35-year-old Jamaican hit two fours in Steyn`s first over as he and individual opener Dwayne Smith, who will likewise play Friday, put on 51 for the first wicket inside the opening six overs.
Gayle swung at just about everything as he made his runs off 24 balls, with two sixes and five fours before Steyn jumped for the wicket.
In the previous two-match Twenty20 arrangement, Gayle hit 77 on the over of the quickest ever half-century in the organization at Centurion and after that impacted 90 off 41 balls in the second amusement at the Wanderers where the West Indies attained to a world record run-pursue.
Gayle was man-of-the-match after he imparted a second-wicket stand of 152 off 75 balls with Marlon Samuels, who made 60.
Steyn did not play in those T20s however he will be under much more prominent investigation on Friday with individual seamer Vernon Philander sidelined because of a hamstring strain and Wayne Parnell having been pound into accommodation by India at the MCG a weekend ago with the left-armer completing with figures of one for 85.
South Africa captain AB de Villiers conceded there was regularly a problem over where best to bowl Steyn - as a deadly weapon against the top request or as a `death bowler` pummeling the brakes on the runs.
Against India, Steyn bowled only four overs in the initial 25.
"It relies on upon the circumstance of the diversion. I simply go on my gut feel," said de Villiers.
"I could sit here and say that possibly my gut feel wasn't right. Possibly not. That`s simply the way I felt. The amusement, the mood of the diversion, that`s the way I read the circumstance, and it most likely didn`t pay off (against India)."