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South Africa's Morne Morkel has joined the Indian team as bowling coach. Earlier, his name was much discussed. Morkel has worked with Gautam Gambhir in the IPL. Morkel will start his tenure as the bowling coach of the Indian cricket team from the upcoming Test series against Bangladesh.
Morkel has also been the coach of the Pakistan team.
Morkel was the coach of the Pakistan team during the ODI World Cup 2023. However, he resigned before the expiry of his contract. Pakistan's performance in the World Cup was not good and they could not make it to the semi-finals. He was also part of Namibia's coaching staff during the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia. Apart from this, he has been the coach of Durban Super Giants in South Africa's SA20 League.
Great performance in IPL
Morkel has taken 309 wickets in 86 Test matches. During this his average has been 27.66. During this his best performance was 6 wickets for 23 runs. He has taken 5 wickets eight times. Talking about his ODI career, he has taken 188 wickets in 117 matches. During this his average has been 25.32. He took 47 wickets in 44 T20 International matches.
Old relationships are serious
In IPL, he has worked with Gautam Gambhir in the Lucknow Super Giants team. He was the bowling coach of Lucknow Super Giants. When Gautam Gambhir was the captain of KKR, Morkel was part of the team. Morkel started coaching after retiring from IPL in 2018.