{"id":24301,"date":"2023-11-14T00:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/morne-morkel-quits-as-pakistans-bowling-coach\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T00:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:14:05","slug":"morne-morkel-quits-as-pakistans-bowling-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/morne-morkel-quits-as-pakistans-bowling-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Morne Morkel quits as Pakistan&#8217;s bowling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_98\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>LAHORE: Former South African pacer Morne Morkel Monday resigned as Pakistan\u2019s bowling coach, citing his commitments with the upcoming leagues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former South Africa fast bowler had joined the Pakistan team on a six-month contract in June this year. Morne Morkel\u2019s first assignment with the Green Shirts was their tour to Sri Lanka for the two-match Test series.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation comes following the Pakistan team\u2019s embarrassing exit from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s team failed to reach the semi-finals and finished fifth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oFt2rglX75o\">mega event<\/a>, winning only four matches and losing\u00a0five. The Green Shirts faced defeats from India, Australia, South Africa, South Africa and England.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more: <a title=\"Babar Azam lands in Lahore after dismal World Cup 2023 performance\" href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/babar-azam-lands-in-lahore-dismal-world-cup-2023-show\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Babar Azam lands in Lahore after dismal World Cup 2023 performance<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>sources privy to the development said, Umar Gul is a strong contender for the post of bowling coach of the Pakistan cricket team.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper Babar Azam is also facing criticism and under pressure over the performance of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan are now eyeing the upcoming crucial series of three Test matches against Australia, scheduled from December 14, 2023, to January 7, 2024, in Australia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Former South African pacer Morne Morkel Monday resigned as Pakistan\u2019s bowling coach, citing his commitments with the upcoming leagues.\u00a0 The former South Africa fast bowler had joined the Pakistan team on a six-month contract in June this year. Morne Morkel\u2019s first assignment with the Green Shirts was their tour to Sri Lanka for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/morne-morkel-resign-pakistan-bowling-coach.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}