IF it was very Morne Morkel-like to record his Test best match figures, 9-110, when the actual cricket was peripheral set against the ball tampering affair, nothing can detract from a career in which he has been “everything a fast bowler should be”, as Osman Samiuddin noted for ESPNCricinfo.
Morkel possessed pace, bounce and swing, delivered to a relentless line – just outside off-stump – and at an awkward length – the sort which leaves a batsman sensing that he should be playing forward but unable to always bring himself to. While Morkel was rarely...