Morkel working on bowling with discipline – Cricket News Update
South African seamer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Morkel-c73528, says that his bowlers are working on improving their showings in the upcoming Test against Adelaide, especially rectifying the problem of over-stepping.
The much vaunted Proteas attack failed to rekindle their heroics of the past year and struggled to make an impact while bowling to the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942 in a drawn opening affair at the Gabba.
Despite the pitch offering them little, much was expected of an attack which is hailed as the best in modern-day cricket. However, they looked a shadow of their old self and managed just 4 Aussie wickets for the best part of 2 days.
Apart from lacking innovation, they overstepped the popping crease on no less than 23 occasions, with the major culprit being debutant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RK-Kleinveldt-c2334, who bowled 12 no-balls. While Morkel just delivered two, he still could have accounted for Cowan and Clarke, both of whom went onto amass big scores.
The former was caught behind, and despite the umpire giving the player not-out, replays deemed that the pacer had bowled an illegal delivery. Morkel was then guilty of giving the Aussie skipper a reprieve after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 had edged behind the stumps, only for the standing umpire to spot the over-stepping. The resulting incident meant that Clarke went onto post an unbeaten 259 as the Aussies posted 565 in their first innings. That daunting total further gave the hosts a psychological edge over their opponents.
Morkel’s history of no-balls is evident where he notably claimed the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Prior-c1984, in the recent tour of England, only for the umpire to call it an illegitimate delivery. With the pacer’s ability called into question, Morkel said that he is working on maintaining discipline in his bowling.
"It's about having discipline. We've been working on it," Morkel said after recalling his no-ball history. "It's a bitter pill to swallow especially because you know the quality of the batsmen and you don't want to give them another chance. When it happens to me, I try to get on with the job and think that if can get the batsman out once, I can do it twice."
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