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Albie Morkel

Albie Morkel
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Personal information
Full name Johannes Albertus Morkel
Born (1981-06-10) 10 June 1981 (age 35)
Vereeniging, Transvaal Province, South Africa
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role All-rounder
Relations M Morkel (brother)
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 304) 19 March 2006 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 76) 20 February 2004 v New Zealand
Last ODI 3 March 2012 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 81
Domestic team information
Years Team
1999–2006 Easterns
2004– Titans (squad no. 81)
2008–2013 Chennai Super Kings
2008–2010 Durham
2012 Somerset
2013 Derbyshire
2014 Royal Challengers Bangalore
2015 Delhi Daredevils
2016–present Rising Pune Supergiants
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 1 58 77 200
Runs scored 58 782 4,117 3,388
Batting average 58 23.69 44.26 28.71
100s/50s 0/1 0/2 8/23 1/16
Top score 58 97 204* 134*
Balls bowled 192 2,073 11,807 7,611
Wickets 1 50 203 206
Bowling average 132.00 37.98 30.28 30.84
5 wickets in innings 0 0 5 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/44 4/29 6/36 4/23
Catches/stumpings 0/– 15/– 34/– 48/–
Source: Cricinfo, 10 December 2016

Johannes Albertus Morkel (born 10 June 1981), better known as Albie Morkel, is a South African cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm medium fast and bats left-handed. He was ear marked as the new Lance Klusener from an early age and is famous for his six hitting abilities. Albie has a brother, Morné Morkel, who also plays international cricket for South Africa while his father Albert played provincial cricket in South Africa.

He has a particularly impressive first class record, with a batting average of 44.0 and a bowling average of 29.0.

His bowling was quite impressive in his first seasons in first class cricket, as he burst onto the scene with six for 36 for Easterns against Griqualand West, but in the 2004/05 season he was expected to take more of the bowling effort for the Titans, but only took 20 wickets at a bowling average of 40.65. However, that coincided with an improvement in his batting, as he made his first double century of his career, with 204 not out against Western Province Boland.

During the 2008 Summer season Albie played for Durham County Cricket Club in the North East of England along with fellow South African Shaun Pollock mainly in the Twenty20 Cup competition. He was dropped from the National team to the tour of Windies to open door for Dave Miller and others .

In 2012, Morkel was confirmed as Somerset's second overseas player alongside Chris Gayle. Roelof van der Merwe was expected to be retained by Somerset but it was expected that a work permit wouldn't be obtainable.

He joined Derbyshire in 2013 as an overseas player for their Friends Life t20 campaign.


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