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: Dale Steyn set to join English county Hampshire

The Proteas ace will join the county in June as he looks to return to full fitness after a series of injuries.

Veteran Proteas fast bowler, Dale Steyn will join English county side, Hampshire for the 2018 domestic season.

The 34-year old has been on the sidelines for three months after suffering a heel injury during the opening Test of the home series against India at Newlands in January.

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He will join up with the county in June, a month before South Africa is set to tour Sri Lanka for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and one T20 international.

Steyn will also fill in for Proteas teammate, Hashim Amla, who joins the county for the first three months of the season.

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Twitter tributes for Morkel as he bows out of international cricket: #MyMorneMoments

Morne Morkel’s international career came to an end on Tuesday, but not before this special tribute.

Morne Morkel bowed out of international cricket in fine style as South Africa registered a historic 3-1 series victory against Australia by winning the fourth and final Test by a mammoth 492 runs, the highest victory run margin in history.

The 33-year-old was in the thick of the action as he bowled what would become the final delivery of the series, where Aiden Markram effected the run out which would bring the contest, as well as a 12-year Test career, to a close.

Though his achievements in the side have been largely understated when compared to some of his relatively ‘superstar’ teammates, they haven’t gone unnoticed by the public, as well as former teammates, who paid a tribute by remembering some of his memorable moments through the hashtag, #MyMorneMoments on Twitter.

From his rather comical ‘tool shed’ moment, to his flying catch in the recent