Cricket News: Morkel joins Surrey on a two-year Kolpak deal

After calling time on his international career, the 33-year old has penned a two-year deal with the English county side.

South Africa great Morne Morkel has joined Surrey on a two-year contract ahead of the new English county season, the club announced Tuesday.

The towering fast bowler retired from international cricket this month after helping South Africa seal their first home Test series victory over Australia since their apartheid-enforced exclusion.

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Morkel, 33, took 309 wickets in 86 Tests at an average of 27.66 and was a member of the South Africa side that topped the International Cricket Council’s Test rankings in 2012.

He will now be available to play for Surrey, whose headquarters are at The Oval in south London, in all forms of the game

Cricket News: Aiden Markram breaks into top 10 in the latest ICC Test Rankings

The 23-year old joins two other Proteas at the top of the batting rankings, while Kagiso Rabada remains the best bowler in Test cricket.

Proteas opening batsman, Aiden Markram has had a fairytale start to his international career and it has been further underlined by him surging up the ICC Test Rankings into the top 10 in the batting category.

The 23-year old made his highest score in Test cricket during the first innings of the fourth and final Test against Australia at The Wanderers, when he piled on the misery on the troubled visitors, eventually getting out for 152, his second triple figure score of the series.

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He finished as the leading run scorer with 480 runs at an average of 60, to climb up to ninth spot in the rankings, one spot below opening p