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Albie Morkel

South Africa

Full name Johannes Albertus Morkel

Born June 10, 1981, Vereeniging, Transvaal

Current age 28 years 151 days

Major teams South Africa, Africa XI, Chennai Super Kings, Durham, Easterns, Titans

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Relation Father - A Morkel, Brother - M Morkel

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	1	1	0	58	58	58.00	71	81.69	0	1	10	1	0
ODIs	43	30	7	549	97	23.86	539	101.85	0	1	54	16	11
T20Is	22	18	4	338	43	24.14	244	138.52	0	0	22	20	10
First-class	63	90	15	3148	204*	41.97			5	19			25
List A	149	111	31	2226	97	27.82			0	9			29
Twenty20	88	74	22	1279	71	24.59	924	138.41	0	3	99	66	17

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	1	2	192	132	1	1/44	1/132	132.00	4.12	192.0	0	0
ODIs	43	40	1678	1497	43	4/29	4/29	34.81	5.35	39.0	2	0
T20Is	22	22	310	382	13	2/12	2/12	29.38	7.39	23.8	0	0
First-class	63		9356	4846	163	6/36		29.73	3.10	57.3		4
List A	149		5910	4760	160	4/23	4/23	29.75	4.83	36.9	4	0
Twenty20	88	81	1510	1969	76	4/30	4/30	25.90	7.82	19.8	2	0

Career statistics

Only Test	South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, Mar 19-22, 2009 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	New Zealand v South Africa at Wellington, Feb 20, 2004 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v England at Centurion, Sep 27, 2009 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	South Africa v New Zealand at Johannesburg, Oct 21, 2005 scorecard
Last T20I	Pakistan v South Africa at Nottingham, Jun 18, 2009 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1999/00
Last First-class	Titans v Dolphins at Centurion, Oct 22-25, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1999/00
Last List A	Titans v Eagles at Centurion, Nov 1, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Titans v Lions at Centurion, Apr 8, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Pakistan v South Africa at Nottingham, Jun 18, 2009 scorecard

Profile

Albie Morkel, a right-arm fast-medium bowler and left-handed batsman, has been earmarked as the new Lance Klusener. He rose to prominence playing for his provincial side Easterns against the touring West Indians in 2003-04 when he defied food poisoning to score a century and take five wickets at Benoni. Ray Jennings, his provincial coach and a former South African wicketkeeper, predicted some time ago that Morkel would become a world-class allrounder, and Morkel was given his first taste of international action when picked for the tour of New Zealand in 2003-04. However, his early career brought only a glimpse of his talent and Twenty20 appears made for his type of play. Morkel comes from a cricketing family, with father Albert having played for Transvaal B and his brother Morne having also played for South Africa.

He made his Test debut for South Africa against Australia in the third Test in Cape Town in March 2009, replacing his brother who was dropped for the game.
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Notes

South Africa Player of the Year 2008