After revolutionizing England’s white-ball game completely with his 7-year-long captaincy tenure, Eoin Morgan is set to retire from International cricket tomorrow, which will draw the curtains on a stellar white-ball career in which he scored over 10,000 runs across ODIs and T20Is.
Morgan took the captaincy reins from Alastair Cook just before the 2015 World Cup but could not go on to win the title. Nevertheless, Morgan and coach Trevor Bayliss, assembled a battery of power hitters that routinely accumulated 300+ scores, who went to win the 2019 ODI CWC.
Morgan has lately been struggling with his form and has been out of runs since long, therefore he is wondering to pass the captaincy baton to his favourite mate, Jos Buttler. “He obviously feels like he’s done with international cricket, and the team for him still comes first, which just shows how unselfish he is. He’s done a remarkable job and he’s the best we’ve ever had, for sure”, Moeen Ali told the BBC’s Test Match Special.
Though Morgan had a good run in 2020 and 2021, his form has been a matter of concern thereafter. Nevertheless, his teammates and fans wanted him to have at least leaded the team till the 2023 WC.
Twitter reacts to Eoin Morgan’s unexpected retirement news.
Here are some of the Twitter reactions to this news:
Eoin Morgan deserves a proper farewell.
World Cup sharing captain and one of the best in middle order batsmen of his era.
Enabler of paradigm shift of white ball cricket in England.— JoeCricket_ | ROHIRAT ERA (@Joecricket_) June 27, 2022
It takes tremendous guts to realize that it is the best time to walk away when others can contribute to the team better than you.
Winner of England's first T20 WC and ODI WC
Eoin Morgan.The greatest non-English player to play for England 🙌🙌#CricketTwitter #Cricket
— Anuj Prabhu 🇮🇳 (@APTalksCricket) June 27, 2022
Eoin Morgan played a major role in revolutionizing England's white-ball cricket. Hope he gets a befitting farewell from the ECB. https://t.co/ur2VueQljW
— tanya (@s4turnsh1t) June 27, 2022
Eoin Morgan is a genius English cricket owe him everything and then some. My highlight for me is the superover. His constant chat with Jofra Archer was brilliant and the epitome of his captaincy. Ice cold killer and a white ball great with the bat. Wish him well.
— TheRunOutBlog (@TheRunOutBlog1) June 27, 2022
What an amazing example of a professional sportsperson Eoin Morgan is, knows he’s given his all, inspired a brilliant specialist side who; went on to win the World Cup – and above all hasn’t outstayed his time – unlike some players we could mention.
— AmerCric (@Amermalik12) June 27, 2022
Sorry to hear of the retirement from international cricket of Eoin Morgan. A spectacular white ball cricketer and hugely successful captain in shorter formats. An honourable decision made I suspect with the best interests of the team in mind. Respected to the very end.
— David J. Fensome (@DavidFensome) June 27, 2022
Thanks Eoin Morgan
Only Captain To Won A ODi world Cup For England
379 Matches
10859 Runs
64 Fifty
16 Hunderd
Most Win In T20I As Captain pic.twitter.com/vKy1vFlbTP— Cricket With Me (@Holymoinuddin) June 27, 2022
A finest and a great white ball captain of England. First WC title for England in his captaincy. What a memorable career. Still a shocking and sad news but good luck captain for the future. Eoin Morgan You will always remains my favourite❤️ https://t.co/FdK6wkS83O
— Fatima Masroor (@beingfatyma_) June 27, 2022
English cricket owes Eoin Morgan a huge debt. Impossible to imagine we would have won the World Cup without the changes he brought to how England thought about white ball cricket .
— James Forsyth (@JGForsyth) June 27, 2022
Eoin Morgan is a modern-day legend & one of the best captains white-ball format has ever seen. He was a key head to everything good that happened to English white-ball cricket since that 2015 WC debacle. He also took an avg KKR side to an IPL final last year. #Legend #EoinMorgan
— Mizgan (@mizgans) June 27, 2022
Eoin Morgan showing his true class . Guy is a legend instrumental in turning @englandcricket into World Champions . And now knows it’s time to pass the banton realising England has untold talent coming through #englandcricket #ENGvsNZ
— John Wright (@johnwright15) June 27, 2022
Reacting to the news ahead of the final day’s play of the Headingly Test, Nasser Hussain, the former England captain, told Sky Sports: “Eoin Morgan has been the most influential white-ball cricketer England have ever had. He’s been our best white-ball captain, and he has been a fantastic player. And he gave us the best moment in English white-ball cricket that we’ve ever had, at Lord’s. It was an incredible day, an incredible finale, and a lot of it was down to the skipper.”
It’s not decided who will lead the English team for the white-ball format but its Jos Buttler who is being named everyone’s favourite for the role.
