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It will all soon be over up for bowling star Morkel
There will be a hole 1.96m tall in SA’s attack from April with the news that Morné Morkel has pulled the plug on his international career. Morkel told reporters in Durban on Monday that the Test series against Australia‚ which starts at Kingsmead on Thursday and is scheduled to end at the Wanderers on April 3‚ would be the last in which he would okay in an SA shirt. "It was an extremely tough decision, but I feel the time is right to start a new chapter‚" Morkel said. "I have a young family and a foreign wife‚ and the current demanding international schedule has put a lot of strain on us." Theories that Morkel was thinking of calling it quits have swirled for months‚ with the prevailing version that he would try to make it to the 2019 World Cup. In September 2017 the fast bowler said he would seek clarity from then new SA coach Ottis Gibson on the issue. Morkel was SA’s leading wicket-taker in the Test series in England in 2017 and he claimed 13 against India this summer. He is in t...
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