Stephen Sebastian Louis Steyn (11 March 1905 – 14 October 1993) was a South African

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er who played

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from 1924 to 1938. He toured Australia in 1931–32 with the South African team but did not play

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Cricket career

In a

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match in December 1928, Steyn scored 261

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, taking part in an eighth-wicket partnership of 222 in 105 minutes with Denys Morkel, when

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made 601 in reply to Border's first innings of 151; Western Province went on to win by an innings. Steyn's score and Western Province's totals were new records for the Currie Cup, but both were surpassed later that season. The partnership of 222 remained a South African eighth-wicket record until the 21st century. It was Steyn's first

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in first-class cricket. Steyn was educated at

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before going to the

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to study for an arts degree. After Jack Siedle withdrew from the selected side, Steyn was selected as a replacement to tour Australia in 1931–32 on the understanding that he could sit his final exams in Australia. He spent the first weeks of the tour in Brisbane concentrating on his studies, and did not play his first game until mid-December, a minor match just before the Second

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. His first first-class match on the tour was against

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in early January, after the Third Test. In all he played only three of the 15 first-class matches, and returned to South Africa with Edward van der Merwe before the team embarked on the New Zealand leg of the tour. Steyn continued to play Currie Cup cricket through the 1930s, but had only moderate success, apart from an innings of 162 for Western Province against

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in 1936–37, when Western Province won by an innings. Steyn died in Cape Town in October 1993, aged 88. His son

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played first-class cricket in South Africa in the 1960s.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Steyn, Stephen 1905 births 1993 deaths Cricketers from Cape Town South African cricketers Western Province cricketers Gauteng cricketers Alumni of Diocesan College, Cape Town University of Pretoria alumni