Gqeberha, Oct. 22 -- South African all-rounder Marco Jansen responded to legendary compatriot Dale Steyn's "best cricketer in the world" compliment, saying that it is nice to hear such comments and that he often thinks about how he wants to be as a player.

Jansen has played a major role in helping South Africa to a dominant position at stumps after four days of the second ICC World Test Championship fixture against the Aussies in Gqeberha, with the tall all-rounder contributing a superb innings of 85 with the bat before collecting a five-wicket haul with the ball to leave the Proteas just six wickets away from a series-levelling victory at St George's Park. It was his exploits combined with skipper Temba Bavuma's 179 and Simon Harmer's 8...