On the first day of first Test between South Africa and Pakistan in Centurion Dale Steyn dismissed Fakhar Zaman and picked his 422nd wicket. He went past Shaun Pollock's tally of 421 wickets and became most successful bowler in South Africa's Test history. Dale Steyn took his 400th Test wicket in July 2015 but due to injuries he didn't play enough Test cricket since then and waited for more than three years for next 22 wickets.
Most Test wickets for South Africa -
422* - Dale Steyn (89 Tests)
421 - Shaun Pollock (108 Tests)
390 - Makhaya Ntini (101 Tests)
330 - Allan Donald (72 Tests)
309 - Morne Morkel (86 Tests)
291 - Jacques Kallis (165 Tests)
205 - Vernon Philander (55 Tests)
Dale Steyn's Test wickets -
Opponents | Tests | inns | Wkts | Avg | BBI | 5w | 10w |
Australia | 15 | 28 | 70 | 27.5 | 5/67 | 2 | 1 |
Bangladesh | 6 | 10 | 28 | 17.3 | 5/63 | 1 | 0 |
England | 12 | 22 | 50 | 31.6 | 5/51 | 2 | 0 |
India | 14 | 23 | 65 | 21.5 | 7/51 | 5 | 1 |
New Zealand | 12 | 23 | 68 | 16.0 | 6/49 | 6 | 2 |
Pakistan | 11 | 21 | 48 | 22.7 | 6/8 | 3 | 1 |
Sri Lanka | 9 | 17 | 37 | 27.0 | 5/54 | 3 | 0 |
West Indies | 9 | 16 | 48 | 19.6 | 6/34 | 3 | 0 |
Zimbabwe | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10.5 | 5/46 | 1 | 0 |
At Home and Away from Home -
Venue | Tests | Inns | Wkts | Avg | SR | BBI | 5w | 10w |
Home | 48 | 90 | 244 | 21.2 | 39.6 | 6/8 | 16 | 3 |
Away | 41 | 72 | 178 | 24.9 | 45.6 | 7/51 | 10 | 2 |
Overall | 89 | 162 | 422 | 22.7 | 42.1 | 7/51 | 26 | 5 |
1st wicket - Marcus Trescothick (BAN) at Port Elizabeth, 2004
100th wicket - Junaid Siddique (BAN) at Chittagong, 2008
200th wicket - Sulieman Benn (WI) at Port of Spain, 2010
300th wicket - Doug Bracewell (NZ) at Cape Town, 2013
400th wicket - Tamim Iqbal (BAN) at Dhaka, 2015
422nd wicket - Fakhar Zaman (PAK) at Centurion, 2018