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KEVIN McCALLUM: Morkel moments live on into big man’s retirement
After the near-tears, the smiles and the hugs, Morné Morkel walked out to the last pitch he would bowl on as a Test player with his wife Roz and son Arias. Two of his oldest team-mates, Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers, were already there with their families, sitting down, the glow of their first home Test series win over Australia settling upon them. Morkel lay on his stomach, stretched out that 1.96m frame and took pictures of the De Villiers family with his son. Roz, too, snapped merrily away, seeking the perfect image to remember this moment. Then he lay with his son on the pitch, on a spat a little way back from a good length, and the pair stared into the sky for a spell before Arias tired of being still and went on a run around the track.A #mymornemoments hashtag has been sifting through the best of times of the big man’s career. De Villiers remembers when Morkel opened the batting in the New Year’s Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground after Graeme Smith had broken his finger. H...
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