Morne Morkel

Morne Morkel Biography

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Full name Morne Morkel

Born October 6, 1984, Vereeniging, Transvaal

Current age 29 years 72 days

Major teams South Africa, Africa XI, Delhi Daredevils, Easterns, Kent, Rajasthan Royals, Titans, Yorkshire

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast

Relation Father - A Morkel, Brother - JA Morkel

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Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 51 60 10 666 40 13.32 1340 49.70 0 0 103 2 13 0
ODIs 73 30 9 177 25 8.42 230 76.95 0 0 16 5 19 0
T20Is 36 4 2 16 8* 8.00 13 123.07 0 0 2 1 4 0
First-class 87 106 16 1374 82* 15.26 2768 49.63 0 4 33 0
List A 98 42 12 282 35 9.40 326 86.50 0 0 24 12 24 0
Twenty20 114 32 15 168 23* 9.88 138 121.73 0 0 15 7 16 0
Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 51 96 9958 5352 177 6/23 8/196 30.23 3.22 56.2 9 6 0
ODIs 73 72 3663 2919 124 5/38 5/38 23.54 4.78 29.5 6 1 0
T20Is 36 36 766 904 43 4/17 4/17 21.02 7.08 17.8 2 0 0
First-class 87 15943 8628 311 6/23 27.74 3.24 51.2 16 13 2
List A 98 95 4710 3751 153 5/34 5/34 24.51 4.77 30.7 7 2 0
Twenty20 114 112 2487 3038 128 4/17 4/17 23.73 7.32 19.4 4 0 0
Career statistics
Test debut South Africa v India at Durban, Dec 26-30, 2006 scorecard
Last Test Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai (DSC), Oct 23-26, 2013 scorecard
Test statistics

ODI debut Africa XI v Asia XI at Bangalore, Jun 6, 2007 scorecard
Last ODI South Africa v India at Durban, Dec 8, 2013 scorecard
ODI statistics

T20I debut South Africa v West Indies at Johannesburg, Sep 11, 2007 scorecard
Last T20I South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town, Nov 22, 2013 scorecard
T20I statistics

First-class debut Easterns v West Indians at Benoni, Jan 9-12, 2004 scorecard
Last First-class Pakistan v South Africa at Dubai (DSC), Oct 23-26, 2013 scorecard
List A debut Titans v Dolphins at Centurion, Dec 7, 2005 scorecard
Last List A South Africa v India at Durban, Dec 8, 2013 scorecard
Twenty20 debut Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v Titans at Leicester, Sep 16, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20 South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town, Nov 22, 2013 scorecard
Recent matches
Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
2/34 South Africa v India Durban 8 Dec 2013 ODI # 3443
1/29 South Africa v India Johannesburg 5 Dec 2013 ODI # 3442
3/39, 17 South Africa v Pakistan Cape Town 24 Nov 2013 ODI # 3438
0/37 South Africa v Pakistan Cape Town 22 Nov 2013 T20I # 343
8*, 0/10 South Africa v Pakistan Johannesburg 20 Nov 2013 T20I # 340
0/44 South Africa v Pakistan Abu Dhabi 8 Nov 2013 ODI # 3431
0*, 2/35 South Africa v Pakistan Abu Dhabi 6 Nov 2013 ODI # 3430
3/38, 5 South Africa v Pakistan Dubai (DSC) 1 Nov 2013 ODI # 3427
4, 2/23 South Africa v Pakistan Sharjah 30 Oct 2013 ODI # 3425
1/12, 7, 0/47 South Africa v Pakistan Dubai (DSC) 23 Oct 2013 Test # 2100
Profile
Morne Morkel, brother of allrounder Albie, is an out-and-out fast bowler who has the pace and height to trouble the best. Morkel made his first-class debut in 2003-04, and earned promotion to the Nashua Titans in the 2006 domestic season. A certain Allan Donald marked him out as national potential with good words for the lanky fast bowler's ability to extract bounce and bowl genuinely fast.

Morkel sat out of much of the 2005 season due to injury, but excelled in a fast bowling camp organised by the South African board under Donald's watchful eye. Critics have had little to say against him, and both his attitude and physical strength were seen as plus points. With the big talking point of the 2006-07 season being India's tour of South Africa, Morkel used the opportunity to play for Rest of South Africa against the tourists to make a statement. On the opening day of the four-day fixture at Potchefstroom, Morkel cut a swathe through the Indian top order with 4 for 29. That showing earned him a Test call-up, and he made his debut in the second Test at Durban when Dale Steyn was ruled out, showing good application in an unbeaten 32, shepherding his fellow tail-enders, and pushing South Africa on to a score that seemed scarcely probable earlier in the match. He added three quick wickets on day three to help South Africa to a fantastic win, but missed out on the final Test at Cape Town.

He had a brief stint with Kent during the 2007 season and then impressed during the ICC World Twenty20 when his pace and bounce proved too much for some top batsmen. A stress fracture early in the Pakistan tour which followed halted the rapid rise, and at the start of 2008, his spell at Yorkshire was cut short by injury, but Morkel bounced back to lead South Africa's attack, without ever being at his best, on their victorious tour of England in July and August. In October 2008 he and his brother Albie became the first brothers in 56 years to be named as South African Cricket Annual Cricketers of the Year in the same season, and Morkel was an important , if unspectacular, part of South Africa's successful tour of Australia. He paid the price for some indifferent bowling form in the return series, however, and was dropped for the third Test at Cape Town. After a relatively quiet year, during which he featured in South Africa's squad for the World Twenty20 but was overlooked for the Champions Trophy, Morkel was recalled to the one-day team for the third ODI against England in November 2009. He continued to trouble batsmen with sharp pace and steepling bounce in the Test series that followed, and came within a whisker of sealing a dramatic victory for South Africa in the third Test at Cape Town when he removed an obdurate Ian Bell in his penultimate over.

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