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\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SYDNEY, Oct 30 (Reuters) – South African bowling great Allan Donald believes the pace attack of Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel which will take on Australia in a three-test series next month is the best the country has ever produced. Steyn and Philander are the top two bowlers in the world at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SYDNEY, Oct 30 (Reuters) - South African bowling great Allan\nDonald believes the pace attack of Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander\nand Morne Morkel which will take on Australia in a three-test\nseries next month is the best the country has ever produced.\n Steyn and Philander are the top two bowlers in the world at\nthe moment according to the ICC rankings, while Morkel has also\nearned a place in the top 10 at number nine. \n Donald was one of the most feared fast bowlers of the modern\nera and took 330 wickets in 72 tests after South Africa returned\nto the international cricket fold in the early 1990s.\n Despite featuring in some imposing bowling attacks himself,\nDonald did not hesitate when asked whether the current unit was\nbetter. \n \"I would have to say that, yes,\" Donald, who is in Australia\n as bowling coach for the Proteas, said. \n \"I'm not just saying that, because I was part of an attack\nwith Shaun Pollock and myself and a few others, and I say that\nhumbly and respectfully, I think this is as good as it gets.\n \"They've been bowling together for quite some time now,\nwhich is nice, so momentum's been built over the last couple of\nyears, consistency in selection, and it's nice to have a group\nof guys that know what they're about. \n \"But still, the produce factor is always the key, and this\nis as big as it comes, coming to Australia.\" \n The South Africans will be relishing the prospect of bowling\nagainst an Australian batting line-up which has looked fragile\nat times in the last couple of years.\n The number one ranked test team has brought just four\nseamers on the tour, however, with uncapped all rounder Rory\nKleinveldt making up the quartet. \n England, the last team to win a series in Australia, used\nfive quicks in the 2010-11 Ashes, albeit over five tests. \n The series begins at the Gabba in Brisbane from Nov. 9-13\nbefore tests at the Adelaide Oval (Nov. 22-26) and the WACA in\nPerth (Nov. 30-Dec. 4).\n\n (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; Editing by John O'Brien)<\/pre>\n