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Marco Jansen has experienced an incredible nine-month rise in international cricket but South Africa’s once-in-a-generation fast bowling giant is still only halfway towards fulfilling a childhood ambition.
At 6ft 8ins, Jansen is an imposing figure at the end of his mark. But he wants opposition batsmen to see double in future years, with twin brother Duan also on South Africa’s radar.
‘We speak it about a lot, actually, imagining that both of us could be in all three formats. We know it’s difficult to get twins, or even siblings, to play together in the national team, but since we were little it’s always been a dream of ours,’ Jansen tells the Mail On Sunday.
Marco Jansen has had a meteoric rise in international cricket over the last nine-months
Marcos says it's his dream to play for South Africa alongside his twin brother Duan (right)
There has never been much to differentiate the brothers from Potchefstroom: they are the same height, bowl left-arm, bat right-handed and enjoyed similar levels of success until recently.
‘There’s definitely a competitiveness between us but it’s a good competitiveness, if I can say it like that, because we always want to be better than each other in the knowledge we’re both improving,’ Jansen, the younger by 15 minutes, adds.
‘Growing up in high school especially, he was the better one, performing way more but when we were 16-17 he got a shoulder injury, didn’t play much and had to go through a big rehabilitation while I got a lot of matches under my belt.’
Jansen's big break came last year when Mumbai Indians signed him (although he has moved on to Indian Premier League
