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from Bruce Manly, proud to have seen Dale Steyn cause the shivers to go down the spine

What a boytjie! Steyn (pronounced Steeeeeeeeeen in Oz speak) rattled the furniture yesterday at the WACA and them Aussies are starting to quake. Now, suddenly our pace quartet are being compared to the ‘greatest ever’ - Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Colin Croft and Joel Garner from the halcyon West Indies sides of the 1980s and 1990s.

Michael Holding has put the Australian top order on notice rating the Protea pace arsenal the most ferocious attack to arrive in almost 20 years. Australia has not lost a test series at home since Curtley Ambrose and Courtney Walsh terrorised the home team with a cocktail of raw pace and steepling bounce.

It’s being predicted that the Proteas will unleash this quartet and provide some chin music against a doddery Mathew Hayden and a relatively inexperienced opener in Simon Katich. The man with the wonky wrist, Ricky Ponting comes in at first change and he can;t be looking forward to a fired up Steyn and Morkel clocking up 154kmph deliveries.

Such is the interest in the series, Melbourne Cricket Ground patrons are rushing to buy tickets for the Boxing Day test - already 41,500 tickets have been sold which is 3,500 more than for an Ashes test at this stage of the month. Corporate boxes are sold out and after the AFL Grand Final, this is the biggest corporate occasion at the MCG - probably due to the fact that most leading Aussie companies have a significant of South African ex-pat executives!

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