Profile
Morne Morkel was termed as a bowler with "genuine pace" by former South African fast bowler Allan Donald. Morne made his first appearance in first class cricket at the age of 19 for Easterns against the touring West Indians. Initially, he struggled with no-balls for a long time. Morkel is a right-arm fast bowler with decent pace and a useful lower order left handed batsman. He made his ODI debut playing for an Africa XI side against Asia XI in June 2007 and took 3 wickets. In the following game he opened the bowling with his brother Albie and this was the first time in ODI history that two brothers have achieved the feat. Morkel was selected in the South African squad for the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa, and performed brilliantly. Morkel bowled with consistent pace and accuracy, finishing with 9 wickets at 13.33 and an economy rate of 6.00, considered excellent in this form of the game. This haul included a match-winning spell of 4/17 against New Zealand. He was subsequently selected for the tour of Pakistan, but unfortunately suffered a broken bone in his foot in the warm-up match preceding the first test. Soon after he retained his place in the squad
Statistics
Show:
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Runs |
NO |
Avg. |
SR |
100's |
50's |
| Test |
17 |
22 |
263 |
1 |
12.52 |
43.19 |
0 |
0 |
| ODI |
21 |
8 |
81 |
3 |
16.2 |
101.25 |
0 |
0 |
| T20 |
9 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
33.33 |
0 |
0 |
| |
Matches |
Innings |
Balls |
Runs |
Wickets |
BBI |
BBM |
Avg. |
Econ. |
4w |
5w |
10w |
Extras |
| Test |
17 |
32 |
3101 |
1920 |
55 |
5/50 |
/ |
34.91 |
3.72 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
158 |
| ODI |
21 |
20 |
1112 |
935 |
31 |
4/36 |
/ |
30.16 |
5.05 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
71 |
| T20 |
9 |
9 |
203 |
212 |
13 |
4/17 |
/ |
16.31 |
6.33 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
| |
Catches |
Stumpings |
Runouts |
| Test |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| ODI |
6 |
0 |
2 |
| T20 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Career
Span:
- Test:
- 2006-2009
- ODI:
- 2007-2009
- T20:
- 2007-2009
- Test
-
- Debut:
- South Africa Vs India at Kingsmead, Durban - Dec 26, 2006
- Last played:
- South Africa Vs Australia at Kingsmead, Durban - Mar 06, 2009
- ODI
-
- Debut:
- Africa XI Vs Asia XI at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore - Karnataka - Jun 06, 2007
- Last played:
- South Africa Vs Australia at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Apr 17, 2009
- T20
-
- Debut:
- South Africa Vs West Indies at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Sep 11, 2007
- Last played:
- South Africa Vs India at Trent Bridge, Nottingham - Jun 16, 2009
