How will the South Arican pace duo perform in Australia?

So with South Africa about to embark on a tour to Australia I thought of looking at two of their quicks Morne Morkel, and Steyn and it has to be said that both Steyn, and Morkel have a major role to play as South Africa look to defeat Australia at least for once.

It is going to be a tough test for these two quicks as Australian batsmen like Ponting, Haydos, Clarke, Hussey etc tend to do very well at home as they are well versed with the conditions. Another factor to consider is that contrary to what many think it is not that easy for visiting teams to bowl well in Australia as the tracks in Australia to start with have slowed down a bit, let it be Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide which leaves only Brisbane, secondly the ball that is used the kookaburra loses its shine very quickly and more importantly one has to get the length absolutely precise as it does not move in Australia because of the pitches being hard and kookaburra ball being used. So unless a team is playing at Adelaide back of a length is what one has to go for but the one advantage for South Africa is that there is no more McGrath who used to specialize in bowling back of a length, yes Clark is there but he is not in the class of Glenn.

As far as Morkel, and Steyn are concerned they should not get excited as young bowlers tend to think that playing in Australia means they can blast the batsmen. Steyn pitches it up to the batsman and looks for swing which may not be the right length for Australian conditions but that does not mean that he should look to change it but continue with his natural length and look for whatever swing one can get with that new kookaburra ball and afterwards with the older ball he can experiment with bowling back of a length. I don't think one saw the best of Steyn in England but when he is in good rhythm he can trouble the best of batsmen as he bowls quicker than one expects, he can also bowl a very good bouncer as well as he can reverse, yes again Kookaburra ball or for the matter the pitches which is hard does not offer much for reverse swing but whatever it is there Steyn can extract it. Morne Morkel is the perfect bowler for Aussie wickets as he is tall and bowls back of a length, hits the deck hard, with good pace but he sometimes gets carried away with pace and loses his line which he has to be careful of as Aussie wickets are quite unforgiving for wayward bowling.

All in all if SA quicks get it right they have it in them to give back the Aussies a taste of their own medicine.