{"id":228462,"date":"2023-11-14T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=228462"},"modified":"2023-11-14T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:54:22","slug":"morne-morkel-resigns-as-pakistan-fast-bowling-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/morne-morkel-resigns-as-pakistan-fast-bowling-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Morne Morkel resigns as Pakistan fast bowling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nISLAMABAD, 13 Nov (AP) \u2014 Pakistan fast bowling coach Morne Morkel has resigned with one month left on his six-month contract, the country\u2019s cricket body said Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morkel joined the national team in June. The Pakistan Cricket Board didn\u2019t give any reason why the former South African fast bowler quit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PCB said it will announce Morkel\u2019s replacement \u201cin due course.\u201d Pakistan is scheduled to play a three-test series against Australia from Dec. 14-Jan 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morkel\u2019s first assignment was a two-test series in Sri Lanka, which Pakistan won 2-0. But the team had mixed results in white-ball cricket. After beating Afghanistan in a three-match ODI series played in Sri Lanka, Pakistan couldn\u2019t qualify for the Asia Cup final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without injured fast bowler Naseem Shah, Pakistan\u2019s fast bowlers at the Cricket World Cup struggled to provide the early breakthroughs with the new ball. The team finished fifth in the tournament, missing out on the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, 13 Nov (AP) \u2014 Pakistan fast bowling coach Morne Morkel has resigned with one month left on his six-month contract, the country\u2019s cricket body said Monday. Morkel joined the national team in June. The Pakistan Cricket Board didn\u2019t give any reason why the former South African fast bowler quit. The PCB said it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}