Previous South Africa pacer Morne Morkel was the bowling trainer of the Pakistan cricket crew during the 2023 ODI World Cup in India
Gautam and Morne Morkel named Indian cricket crew’s bowling trainer: BCCI secretary Jay Shah affirms to news office PTI. Previous South Africa pacer Morne Morkel was the bowling trainer of the Pakistan cricket crew during the 2023 ODI World Cup in India.
He has been related with IPL groups – Kolkata Knight Riders, Lucknow Super Monsters and Delhi Adrenaline junkies. “Indeed, Morne Morkel has been designated bowling trainer of the senior India men’s group,” Shah told PTI.
India’s most memorable Test match against Bangladesh on September 19 will be Morkel’s most memorable task with the Indian group.
The 39-year-old Morkel was the new boss mentor Gautam Gambhir’s essential decision, having worked with him at Lucknow Super Monsters. The 39-year-old has played 86 Tests, 117 ODIs and 44 T20Is for South Africa with a sum of 544 global wickets.
Gambhir and Morkel shared a decent working relationship during their time at the LSG as mentors.
After Gambhir left KKR, Morkel remained with LSG as a bowling trainer. Gambhir Before the 2014 super sale, Gambhir, then, at that point, KKR chief, had demanded getting the administrations of Morkel as a player. Gambhir had additionally said before that Morkel was the bowler he dreaded the most.
In the meantime, previous India pacer Joginder Sharma feels Gautam Gambhir’s residency as lead trainer of the group probably won’t be a long one, fundamentally due to his blunt nature. Gambhir took over as lead trainer of the Indian group after Rahul Dravid’s residency concluded the T20 World Cup in June. Under the administration of Suryakumar Yadav, India crushed Sri Lanka 3-0 in Gambhir’s presentation T20I series as lead trainer.
While Gambhir has been all grins at the beginning of the residency, Joginder, a T20 World Cup victor with him in 2007, feels that the previous India opener won’t be capable stay as lead trainer for quite a while.
“Gautam Gambhir group ko sambhalne waala hai lekin standard mera ye nourishment hai ki Gautam Gambhir jyada lambe samay tak tik nahi payega (Gautam Gambhir is the one to deal with the group, yet I accept that Gautam Gambhir can not remain for quite a while),” Joginder said on Shubhankar Mishra’s digital broadcast.
Morne Morkel, the previous South African pacer, has been named as the new bowling trainer of the Indian men’s group. Morkel, who in the past has filled in as the bowling trainer of Lucknow and Durban’s Super Monsters in the IPL and SA20 separately and the Pakistan men’s cricket crew, will join any semblance of Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate as a component of Indian group’s care staff drove by lead trainer Gautam Gambhir.
According to a Cricbuzz report, the BCCI secretary affirmed Morkel’s arrangement and his residency will start on September 1.
The Indian group visited Sri Lanka with Sairaj Bahutule as the break bowling trainer for six white-ball matches. Nayar and Ten Doeschate were both affirmed by the new lead trainer as aide mentors.
Morkel will be re-joining Gambhir having worked with him as a player and commander in the past with the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and as a bowling trainer and tutor with the Lucknow Super Monsters in IPL 2023, preceding the previous India opener left the establishment and got back to KKR and drove them to their third IPL title in 2024.
Morkel, who played 247 global counterparts for South Africa, stepped through 309 wickets in Exams, 188 in ODIs and 47 in T20Is. During his heyday, Morkel framed an unfriendly speed threesome for the Proteas close by Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander. Since getting into training, Morkel worked with the Pakistan group for ODI World Cup last year in India and the Super Monsters’ establishment both in the IPL and SA20.