India’s Bowling Coach Morne Morkel Reveals his Love for Dosas

New Delhi: Morne Morkel, the former South African speedster and newly appointed bowling coach for the Indian cricket team, has revealed his favorite food. Morkel, who was a part of the support staff for the Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League, joined the Indian team following Gautam Gambhir's appointment as head coach.

In an interview, on the first day of training with the Indian cricketers, Morkel spoke about his love for dosas, labelling it his favourite food.

“I like a bit of puri,” Morkel said. “Breakfast, obviously I love my dosas. Milk, malai, chicken, naan breads. But yeah, I think it’s also important as a coach that you need to show that you eat healthy and, you know, the rest of the players will follow that.”

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As we all know India is known for its rich culture in food, every part of the country is known for its respective dishes and people from across the globe love to explore Indian food.

It is worth mentioning that India will be facing Bangladesh in a test series, ahead of that Morkel said “We’re ready to take up this challenge”.

Morne Morkel is ready for his first assignment as Indian men’s bowling coach, which will be the upcoming two-match Test series against Bangladesh. It will start on 19th September at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai which is also known as Chepauk Stadium.

“You know, it’s one thing, having the talent and having the skill, but, you know, how can you make those guys feel welcome in an intimidating sort of environment?” the South African said in the same interview. “You know, India playing in India, playing wearing the blue shirt, there’s a lot of expectations.”So for me, having that experience and going through that, passing on that sort of knowledge and helping them to settle and also feel at home because I think as soon as a player, you know, have that accountability of they belong and they feel comfortable in the space, the performances will come. So it’s about looking after that and, you know, from there obviously upskill and get them up to the standard. We’re ready, you know, to take up this challenge,” said Morne Morkel.

“I understand and I know there’s always going to be expectations of winning and stuff like that. And luckily I’ve experienced it in my playing days and I can share that knowledge. And, you know, I think we always, when I was sitting on the plane and I reflect back, we’re so lucky in this team to have quality senior players. And, you know, the senior players, they’ll lead the charge and it’s, you know, our responsibility to support them and just give them the best sort of, you know, advice that we can give. But coming out here, this is a setup where, you know, it sort of operates by itself. So to protect that and make it better in small ways is going to be the goal,” he concluded.