Read why Dale Steyn wants to be in quarantine with teammate Quinton de Kock!

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The recent Coronavirus outbreak has brought the world to a standstill which includes putting a break on the active and hectic lifestyle of cricketers. 

South African speedster Dale Steyn was recently asked who he would like to be quarantined with. To which he responded that he would prefer current South African skipper Quinton de Kock.

Justifying his choice, the pacer claimed that the wicket-keeper batsman’s fond for fishing and more. He told ESPNCricinfo:

 “I would love to be in quarantine with someone like Quinny de Kock,”

He is one of my favourite people in the world. If you walk into his (hotel) room, he’s either making flies for fishing or he is watching a fishing video or he is watching a cooking video. And when you are at his house, he’s doing the same stuff.

“I hate cooking, so it would be great if he was because then I could watch all the fishing videos that he’s watching, I could help him do all the tying, and he could cook all the food. He’s a proper cook,”

Steyn was also asked what would his preferred cricket content to watch on TV durine the isolation period. The bowler claimed that he would love to watch the World Cups which ran through the late end of the 20th century along with the 2003 edition which was hosted in South Africa. He added:

“I would probably say that they should put every World Cup up until ’99 on. So 1992, ’96, ’99 — I love those World Cups.

“And even the one in South Africa (2003) because that’s when I really started to get into guys like Brett Lee, because I knew the possibility of me playing against them or meeting them was so much closer than what it was in, say, ’92, when I first got introduced to the game,” 

Steyn made his way back home leaving the Pakistan Super League midway where he picked up two wickets. Steyn outlined the rules that they had in place to restrict the outbreak. He said:

We were under that kind of hotel arrest — advised not to go out and wander the streets, which is totally fine; I don’t want to break protocol and (have) something happen and be blamed for cricket never being played in Pakistan again because I did something stupid.”

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