adminJOHANNESBURG. – Everyone is now sharing their #MorneMoments, but Morne Morkel’s own golden oldie from 2006 still gives him the shivers. “It was my first ball in international cricket. Sachin Tendulkar was the batsman. Shaun Pollock gave me the ball. He and Andre Nel were speaking to me, but I didn’t hear anything. When the umpire said ‘play’, my whole body went numb and I didn’t know how I was going to bowl that ball. But then I bowled. And that’s how it all began.”
And now, 12 years later, this scrawny skyscraper has bowled his last ball in international cricket, shortly after becoming the fifth member of the elite 300 club in South African cricket during his best ever season. – City Press
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