Sydeny: Struggling South African fast bowler Dale Steyn must find a way to contain record-breaking West Indian batsman Chris Gayle in Friday's crunch World Cup clash. Steyn's cutting edge has been blunted at the tournament so far with his two matches giving him total figures of two for 119 from a win over Zimbabwe and a crushing loss to India.


South Africa's Dale Steyn and West Indies' Chris Gayle. Pics/AFP 

Gayle, too, struggled at the start of the competition, making 36 in the defeat by Ireland and just four in the win over Pakistan. But he roared back to form with his sensational, record-breaking 215 against Zimbabwe in Canberra on Tuesday, the first-ever double century at a World Cup. Now the spotlight at the Sydney Cricket Ground will be trained on Steyn, who has only ever dismissed Gayle once in their one-day international clashes.