Morne Morkel to retire from international cricket after Australia series

[harsh.ag]

I'm gonna miss Morne. Brought a lot of heart and grace to the field.

 

[Bolo]

It's not meaningful, but I'm pleased to see him finish with a sub 28 average. 28 is my cutoff line for very good without looking at the player

 

[Starfighter]

Anderson has the small matter of 530+ Test wickets vs 300.

Anderson's most recent 312 wickets have come at a sub 25 average.

You can't arbitrarily snip bits off a career though.

 

[Spark]

Anderson has the small matter of 530+ Test wickets vs 300.

Anderson's most recent 312 wickets have come at a sub 25 average.

"if you cut off the bad bits then a player's record looks better"

 

[Spark]

You can't arbitrarily snip bits off a career though.

Nor can you discount that England play three billion more Tests than SA over an equivalent time period.

 

[Top_Cat]

Haven't watched the videos but I'm assuming they detail all the insane nights in he had on tour.

 

[Furball]

"if you cut off the bad bits then a player's record looks better"

My point is that you can't just look at raw averages of 2 players when one has a significantly higher number of wickets and wonder why the guy with 500+ wickets is more lauded.

The same argument applies for Steyn vs Philander. Minimal difference in average but Steyn has literally double Philander's wickets.

 

[Furball]

Anyway, wrong time to be doing this. Excellent bowler when on song, often an unsung hero.

To go back to the cherry picking though, I don't pay as much attention as I used to but he must've had a pretty decent last few years in Tests. Seem to remember Morel being a perennially 30-31 averaging bowler, almost like a South African Flintoff.

 

[Daemon]

Yep he was flirting with the 30s until about 4 years ago and really seemed to break away when he was leading the attack here and there

 

[SeamUp]

Anyway, wrong time to be doing this. Excellent bowler when on song, often an unsung hero.

To go back to the cherry picking though, I don't pay as much attention as I used to but he must've had a pretty decent last few years in Tests. Seem to remember Morel being a perennially 30-31 averaging bowler, almost like a South African Flintoff.

His last 5 series alone he took 56 wickets at 20.

Talk about going out on a high.

 

[OverratedSanity]

"if you cut off the bad bits then a player's record looks better"

You can't arbitrarily snip bits off a career though.

You can when one of the careers in question is much longer

 

[Pup Clarke]

Genuine question, was he ever involved in anything controversial? Possibly the nicest bloke I've seen on a cricket field (Internationally)

 

[srbhkshk]

The same argument applies for Steyn vs Philander. Minimal difference in average but Steyn has literally double Philander's wickets.

great bowler as Philander is, think Steyn has a lot more going for him than only the extra wickets.

Pointless comparing Anderson and Morkel anyway, two very different bowlers with very different roles.

 

[Bahnz]

Morne's been sensational over the last 18 months. As superb as Rabada and Philander are, Morkel's been really leading the attack in that time in terms of consistency of results and it's sad to see him go at such a young age.

 

[Burgey]

Had a fine career. Well done him.

Peter Dutton fast-tracking his residency stays aws.

 

[stephen]

Assuming he plays for WA/Perth they're going to have an even more insane bowling attack than usual.

 

[Burgey]

Also, I’ll long remember his spell to Clarke when he broke his collar bone. That was just quality fast bowling and test cricket.

 

[StephenZA]

Peter Dutton fast-tracking his residency stays aws.

I swear the whole 'white-'farmer' issue is just a long term fix for the Aus cricket team....

 

[Starfighter]

It served England well so why not?

 

[SeamUp]

More-kel moments

Some of the early Titans pics

https://twitter.com/Titans_Cricket/status/981839100440383488?s=19

Morné Morkel: The early years