IND vs BAN 1st Test Match 2024: The two-match Test series between India and Bangladesh will be played from September 19. Both the teams have started preparations for this. In this series, the new bowling coach of the Indian cricket team, Morne Morkel, has also started training the players. Morkel has reached Chennai for this. He will be with the Indian players during the Test series between Bangladesh and India.
Morne Morkel took over the responsibility of bowling coach
Team India has started practice under the captaincy of Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma. BCCI has shared this information on social media. BCCI has shared some pictures of Team India on social media account X. Former South African bowler Morne Morkel is seen in it. For information, let us tell you that Morkel is the new bowling coach of Team India and his arrival is going to benefit the bowlers a lot. The interesting thing is that Morkel has been the coach of the Pakistan cricket team.
Actually, Morkel has been selected as the bowling coach of Team India a few days ago. Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir was also seen with Morkel. Players and especially fast bowlers can get a lot of benefit from the joining of these two players in the Indian team. This is because Morkel is very experienced and has been a very deadly bowler during his career. Bangladesh will definitely suffer a loss somewhere due to Morkel. Morkel will prove to be more beneficial for Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep and Yash Dayal because under his supervision all these players will have a good chance to perform better.
Let us tell you that Morne Morkel’s Test career has been excellent. He has taken 309 wickets in 86 matches. Morkel’s best performance in an innings has been taking 6 wickets for 23 runs. Morkel has taken 188 wickets in 117 ODIs and 47 wickets in 44 T20 International matches. Morkel has also performed well in domestic cricket.
