Morné Morkel's magic moments will be missed
The Proteas workhorse fast bowler hits his peak on the eve of last Australia Test
Morné Morkel is 1.96m tall. He wears size 13 boots. His Adam’s apple sticks out like a ramp model’s hip bones. He is no one’s idea of a mom. Or‚ as it turns out‚ not quite no one. "There’s been a lot of good stuff said over the last while about Morné, but he was almost‚ for the first six‚ seven or eight years of his career‚ the guy that went unnoticed‚" Faf du Plessis said at Newlands. "He was the workhorse. He got his two or three-fors and I think only captains really appreciate the work Morné does. "He is not the guy that gets five-fors. Dale Steyn‚ Kagiso Rabada of late‚ they get the five-fors on regular occasions. Morné does the donkey work." But on Sunday it was Morkel’s turn to shine. He ripped through Australia’s second innings‚ taking 5/23 and claiming all his scalps in the space of 33 of his deliveries in which he conceded 14 runs. It was Morkel’s eighth five-wicket haul in his 85th Test. His match figures of 9/110 are the best of his career and helped SA beat Australia by ...
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