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Full name | Johannes Albertus Morkel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Vereeniging, Transvaal Province, South Africa | 10 June 1981|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Morné Morkel (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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Only Test(cap 304) | 19 March 2009 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 76) | 20 February 2004 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 3 March 2012 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 7) | 21 October 2005 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 5 October 2015 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I shirt no. | 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1999/00–2005/06 | Easterns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2003/04–2018/19 | Titans (squad no. 81) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008–2013 | Chennai Super Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008,2010 | Durham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012/13–2017/18 | Northerns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | St Lucia Zouks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 | Delhi Daredevils | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Rising Pune Supergiants | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Durban Heat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,2 December 2021 |
Johannes Albertus Morkel (born 10 June 1981),better known as Albie Morkel,is a former South African cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm medium fast and bats left-handed. He was earmarked as the new Lance Klusener from an early age and is famous for his six hitting abilities. Albie has a younger brother,MornéMorkel,who also played 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. In January 2019,he retired from all forms of cricket. [1]
Currently he is the assistant coach of the Namibia national cricket team which qualified for 2020 ICC T20 World Cup in Australia on 29 Oct 2019.
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 took only 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. [2]
During the 2008 summer season Morkel 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.
In 2012,Morkel was confirmed as Somerset's second overseas player for the FriendsLife T20 alongside Chris Gayle. Roelof van der Merwe was expected to be retained by Somerset but work permit issues left the club to seek an alternative. [3]
He joined Derbyshire in 2013 as an overseas player for their Friends Life t20 campaign. [4]
His statistics on his international debut tour to New Zealand were not very impressive,as he got two wickets at the cost of 48 runs apiece,but he did get five wickets quite cheaply on Zimbabwe's tour of South Africa. Nevertheless,Morkel was picked for the Africa squad to play Asia in the 2005 Afro-Asia Cup,but withdrew due to injury. He appeared however for Africa the following series,in 2007,and made history in the second game when he opened the bowling with his brother Morné,the first instance of two brothers doing so in ODI cricket.[ citation needed ]
In 2009 he secured two-man-of-the-match accolades against Australia in the series in Australia,as well as the Man of the Series accolade for the One Day Internationals.[ citation needed ]
He was promoted to the Test side for the third Test of the home series against Australia in 2008/09,replacing his brother Mornéin the side.[ citation needed ]
In 2010,he was dropped from the national team for the tour of the West Indies. [5]
Albie played for the Chennai Super Kings since the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League where he had a very successful tournament as an all-rounder.
He is one of the regular names in the overseas four of the playing XI. Morkel's big-hitting abilities and consistent bowling performances has been one of the key reasons of the Super Kings' successful run in the Indian Premier League. In the 2010 IPL,he struck a record third-wicket partnership in the tournament along with Murali Vijay against the Rajasthan Royals. At the 2012 Indian Premier League,he was the winner of the Super Sixes tournament,with a distance of 105m.
Morkel was retained by Chennai for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League.
On 12 April 2012,in the Chepauk stadium at Chennai,he hit 28 runs in one over of Virat Kohli's bowling which ultimately brought victory to Chennai Super Kings from a no win position after chasing a massive total of 206 in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Such exploits with the bat and his useful bowling gained him immense popularity and recognition and made him a household name among the Super Kings' fans.
He was purchased by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹2,40,00,000 ahead of the 2014 season.
He was purchased by the Delhi Daredevils for ₹30,00,000 ahead of the 2015 season. On 9 April 2015 he hit 73 runs off 55 balls against his former team the Chennai Super Kings with eight fours and one six at Chennai. Delhi in the end fell short by one run in a close game.
He represented Rising Pune Supergiant for the 2016 Indian Premier League season.
In October 2018,he was named in Durban Heat's squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament. [6] [7]
Albie hails from an Afrikaner family,who are big cricket fans. Albie was born to Albert and Mariana Morkel as the second of three children;MornéMorkel is the youngest;his older brother,Malan also played cricket. Albie is married to his childhood crush,Marthmari (née Groenewald). Their son,Albertus Johannes "AJ" Morkel was born on 1 December 2009 sharing his birthday with new West Indies Cricket Team Test captain Kraigg Braithwaite and their daughter Cara Morkel was born on 4 June 2011. The family lives in Pretoria. Prior to marriage,he used to live with his brother Mornéand teammate AB de Villiers in Pretoria.
On 22 December 2016 while playing cricket during a holiday at Mossel Bay,Albie found a piece of debris that several believe is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. [8] This was reported on 24 December,and it is believed to be a trailing edge from the flap segment that was found in June 2016 at Kojani,Pemba Island in Tanzania. [9]
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